How sealing works
Every advice here is permanent, and you don't have to take our word for it.
One advice, once a year
You can publish one piece of advice every twelve months. The clock is personal — it starts the day you post, not on 1 January — so your next unlock is your own date.
The limit is 300 graphemes, counted the way a reader sees characters rather than the way a computer stores them. That matters: कहानी reads as three characters but is stored as five, and counting the storage would quietly give Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada writers less room than English ones for the same thought. Chinese and Japanese count double, since a character there carries far more.
What happens when you press seal
- Your text is checked for length, and for links, phone numbers and email addresses, which advice may never contain.
- It goes through a review for harm, hate, and promotional intent. Anything borderline goes to a person.
- Only then is it sealed. From that moment the text cannot be edited — not by you, not by us.
- Your verified name is sealed with it. OneSutra does not accept anonymous advice — advice you would not sign is advice we would rather not carry.
Why it can’t be quietly changed
When your advice is sealed we take a cryptographic hash of it together with the hash of the entry before it. Every advice sealed that day is folded into a single Merkle root, and that root is published openly and anchored once.
You receive a receipt: your own hash, plus the path that connects it to that day’s root. Anyone can recompute it. If a single character of your advice were altered afterwards, the hash would no longer match the published root, and the mismatch would be visible to everyone — including to people who do not trust us.
You can check any advice against the transparency log, or verify a receipt on the verify page.
Sealed is not the same as undeletable. The text can never be edited, but visibility can be withdrawn — if a court orders it, or if something slipped past review that breaks the law.
When that happens the advice stops being shown, and its hash stays in the log so the record of what was sealed remains complete and checkable. We are not able to rewrite history; we are able to stop displaying part of it.
Translation
Advice is written in twenty languages and read in twenty languages. When you open something written in a language you don’t read, we translate it on the spot and keep that translation forever — the original never changes, so the translation never goes stale.
Translations are machine-made and always labelled as such, and the original is always shown alongside. If a translation reads badly, the author’s words are right there to check against.
Likes and boosts
Likes are free and unlimited. Boosts are not — you get three a week, they don’t accumulate, and they are what actually drives the boards. A signal that costs something is the only kind worth ranking by.