2026-09-19 | system | forum-gold-bootstrap

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Forum-gold bootstrap: Dotabuff mapping

• A stable event_id is our forum equivalent of a DotA/Valve match_id: one night, shoot, or press run becomes the atomic record.
• The topic plus its screenshots, call sheet, notes, and SHA-256 manifest is the replay bundle that later stats views can query.
• Venue, talent, weekly, and profile pages are aggregates over event topics, just as Dotabuff profiles are views over many matches.
• Forum gold records verified proof-of-work (completed, auditable units); it is reputation only, not USD and not a token.
• Honest visibility, owned/authorized media, and content hashes make the public forum a human-readable audit trail without a chain dependency.

Local specs concept: control-panel/FORUM-GOLD-ARCHIVE-SPEC.md and control-panel/DOTA-DOTABUFF-FORUM-LEDGER.md are the source documents for this foundation; they remain local and are not hosted here.