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   every pull request scores with the four-seat run and answers it in one run. No merge
   lowers the last score its own panel recorded: the nine-seat round and the four-seat
   run are two ratchets, never compared with each other. A lower score blocks the merge
-  even where it may be panel noise: fix what the seats name until the score rises.
+  even where it may be panel noise: fix what the seats name until the score rises. A PR
+  that only records a run's scores and files what its seats name merges even when a
+  score fell.
 - Hard tabs. No comment by default; delete a restatement, a rationale, history, or a file preamble.
 - Prose naming a source states what that source states: read the register's own field
   before paraphrasing it, and name the register you read before claiming none