Research Guide

Research exists to change or support a decision in the book. Do not collect links without a claim, limitation, and destination.

Workflow

1. Capture a source using templates/research-note.md.
2. Verify citation, authorship, date, source type, and stable URL.
3. Separate what the source says from our implications.
4. Record assumptions, weaknesses, disagreement, and publication-safety concerns.
5. Link affected chapters and source indexes.
6. Promote a claim to BOOK.md only after review.

Directory map

• gaming/, marketplaces/, financial-markets/, social-platforms/ — ecosystem evidence
• legal/, privacy/ — jurisdiction-specific authority and constraints
• fraud/, bot-detection/, ml/, human-verification/ — mechanism and evaluation research
• identity/ — attribution, device, account, and organization linkage

File naming

Use YYYY-author-short-title.md where a year and author exist. Use one note per source. If a source changes over time, record the version or capture date in the citation.

Evidence labels

• Primary: original paper, dataset, law, decision, specification, policy, transparency report, or first-party incident account.
• Secondary: synthesis or reporting that accurately links primary evidence.
• Commentary: expert or practitioner judgment useful for hypotheses but not sufficient alone for factual claims.

Review gate

A note is checked only when citation and material claims were verified against the original. It is synthesized only when its implications and disagreements are reflected in BOOK.md, a concept, or a chapter brief.