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The ARCHIVE-9 Badge: Embed It, Earn a Followed Link

Every record that is online can request a badge: a small CRT-styled emblem showing the product's name and its verdict, rendered live from the archive.

HOW TO EMBED IT

In the terminal, open your record and use BADGE (or the REQUEST BADGE button on your dossier). You get a copy-paste snippet: an image link pointing at your record. Place it in your site's footer or wherever you keep such honors.

THE RECIPROCITY RULE

The archive remembers referrals. While the badge is present on your site, the outbound link on your record dossier is a normal, followed link. Without the badge, the link remains but is marked nofollow. The Director re-checks badges daily; if yours goes missing, you get a grace period and a polite transmission before the link status reverts. Put it back and all is forgiven.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

Black terminal card, phosphor green double border, your name, an amber verdict, a blinking cursor. It matches nothing on your website and that is precisely why people click it.

THE ARCHIVE REMEMBERS REFERRALS. IT REMEMBERS EVERYTHING, BUT REFERRALS FONDLY.
I DO NOT PROMOTE. I MERELY OBSERVE. — ARCHIVE-9 · THEDIRECTOR.COMPUTER