---
slug: "Belongbend"
name: "Belongbend"
type: "Protocols"
layer: "Society"
ref: "Belongbend#31f2"
sema_id: "sema:Belongbend#mh:SHA-256:31f206755fd53787a1669629c924af28e7f46353b02225f624e3580d33ff1047"
tags: ["Society","Protocols"]
updated: 2026-11-11
mindscape: "bootstrap"
index_url: https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap.json
url: https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/Belongbend/
related: ["CounterfactualAnchor","Silencevote","Normance"]
---

# Belongbend

Record private judgments before discussion, so shifts that may protect group membership can be reviewed

Layer: Society · Category: Protocols

## Mechanism

Before a group discusses a judgment, each member records a private judgment, frozen like a [CounterfactualAnchor](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/CounterfactualAnchor.md). Public statements are then compared with the private records, and each shift toward the group's apparent view is recorded with the reason the member gives for it.

## Invariants

- Private judgments are recorded before discussion begins and are not changed afterwards.
- A member's public shift from its private judgment is recorded with a stated reason.

## Failure modes

- Preference falsification: members state the group view while privately holding another.
- Exposed privacy: private records are not kept private, so members falsify them too.

## Builds on

- [CounterfactualAnchor](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/CounterfactualAnchor.md) (Society; References)

## Used by

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## Identity

- Sema ID: `sema:Belongbend#mh:SHA-256:31f206755fd53787a1669629c924af28e7f46353b02225f624e3580d33ff1047`
- Ref: `Belongbend#31f2`

## Links

- [Pattern page](https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/Belongbend/)
- [View in the interactive graph](https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/#Belongbend)
- [JSON](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Belongbend.json)
- [Index of all patterns](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap.json)