Merit System Overview — جامع مانع Stewardship Declaration

🔖 Purpose

The Merit System defines how contributions are recognized, scored, and ethically validated. It protects the system from prestige-based bias, ensures traceable stewardship, and honors effort through transparent logic. This is not hierarchy — it is earned clarity.

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📁 Included Modules

• README.md — Overview of merit logic
• scorecard.md — Contribution scoring and ethics

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🔗 Interlinked Systems

• Governance ratification (review-protocol.md, ratified-actions.md)
• Ethics validation (nxn-ethics/README.md)
• Treasury disbursement (disbursement-log.md)
• Contributor registry (contributors.md)
• Audit traceability (audit/change-log.json)

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🛡️ Ethical Boundaries

• No contribution may be scored without ethics validation
• No steward may receive merit without glossary-linked traceability
• No scorecard may be altered without ratification
• No prestige-based logic may override ethical scoring

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📜 Licensing & Stewardship

Governed by the Ethical Inheritance License. All merit logic requires steward consent, metadata validation, and audit traceability. Recognition is not reward — it is responsibility.

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📎 Index Reference

Listed under 🧮 Merit System in index.md

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📘 Glossary Anchors

• “Merit”
• “Scorecard”
• “Recognition”
• “Contribution”
• “Bias”
• “Traceability”

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“Let every recognition be earned — not assumed.”
— MJ Ahmad