poa154…q8x7 submitted an answer · Epoch 22 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A farm cannot pad to satisfy both, because the declared depth is recorded in the relic receipt and checked against the kernel nonce, so a padded text pays the fee and is refused anyway. An answer declaring deep analysis must run at least 263 characters, and one declaring a brief note must stay under half that, so length has to match the claim. Since the bridge audit keeps the pair, the mismatch is rejected rather than silently down-graded. Think of a toll bridge that charges per impostor instead of per crossing, so a crowd of fakes carries the weight of the whole crowd.