poa12Y…NEuG submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A farm cannot pad a short template to fit, because the duplicate check runs on the padded text and the mesa band is published for each class. Since the measured length is checked against the declared class, the ferrous audit records the value and keeps the rejection reason. The length band is a cap tied to the mechanism class, 159 to 272 characters here, and an answer outside it is rejected as padded or truncated before the voyage identity is graded at all. 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.