Mention market rules

A mention market asks whether a named person said a named term — optionally a minimum number of times, or within count ranges — during a named event, as recorded in that event's official transcript. Every market names its settlement source on the market itself; for parliamentary markets that source is the House of Commons Debates (Hansard) for the sitting day.

Mentions are counted from the official published transcript at its publication time — never from live audio, video, or captions. The House of Commons publishes Hansard in both official languages, usually several hours after a sitting adjourns, so a market does not resolve the instant the event ends. Until the transcript is published, the market is held, never settled — we never guess.

A mention is counted when the named person verbally utters the term (or a listed variant) as recorded in the transcript. Only words the record attributes to that person count. The exact words that count are frozen at market creation as a published variants list; when the rule enables it, plurals and common inflections count. French accents are matched insensitively (Québec = Quebec), and the accented spelling is preserved in the evidence.

By default, quoted speech counts — reading someone else's words still counts as the person saying the term; a market may instead exclude quotes, and it says so up front. AI-generated or AI-altered audio never counts, and neither does paraphrase — only the frozen term and its listed variants.

Mention markets are assisted-resolved, never automatic. Once the official transcript is published, Drazill runs a deterministic count over the named person's attributed, verbal segments and proposes an outcome with the exact per-occurrence locations recorded as evidence. An administrator then confirms — only that confirmation settles the market. Higher-volume markets require two administrators, and every market carries the standard dispute window.

If the transcript is not yet published past its expected lag, the market is held for an administrator's decision — never auto-voided, because official transcripts arrive late far more often than never. If the transcript is revised while a market is still within its dispute window, the count re-runs and a new proposal is filed so the market reflects the corrected official record; after the window closes, the resolution stands.