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The matcher stops trusting what the user can't see

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Eric's question cut to the bone: "How would a user know? It matched
wiz-war and that IS the game." The auto looked unanimous because the
matcher discarded the evidence of doubt before anyone saw it — and
worse, BGG's search hides evidence of its own: results truncate
unordered in the several-hundreds (the game named "Dungeon!" appears
in NEITHER the "Dungeon!" nor the "Dungeon" search), and punctuation
can bury matches.

Three matcher changes: every title is searched raw AND depuncted,
merged by id; a name that becomes exact once its trailing
parenthetical is stripped ("Wiz-War (Eighth Edition)") is a sibling
edition — BGG files new editions as separate games — and enters the
candidate set at exact grade, so same-named lineages land in review as
a visible choice; and a LONE candidate must now earn trust (stats
fetched, sibling-grade never autos alone, true exacts must clear the
dominance ownership floor) — closing the fast path both impostors
(.dungeon at 31 owners, then Dungeon (ICP)) walked through.

Recorded outcomes: WIZ-WAR → ambiguous with all three lineages on the
ballot; Dungeon! → ambiguous (its true match is beyond BGG's search
horizon — that's what manual id is for); every legitimate auto in the
fixture set held. And the answer to Eric's second question is now
structural: re-match never re-decides — it demotes to unmatched and
the HUMAN picks from re-search or manual id; the machine only chooses
on first resolve, and it now chooses more humbly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jXZFSTZQKzAC8fqpWSz9g
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Eric Wagoner
2026-08-05 21:47:49 -04:00
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