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SERVICE RECORD

Your service record

Your designation, your hours, your logged excursions and the sites you have named — compiled by your own browser, held on this device, and never sent anywhere. There is no account here and nothing to sign in to.

The Thinplace Survey — Station 07Form TS-14 · Rev. 3

Personnel & field service record

Compiled by the operator's own equipment. No copy exists elsewhere.

Unfiled
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Operator designation
TS-1974-————
Case number
Enrolled
Visits recorded
Service summary — measured fieldwork only
HeadingOn fileNote
Time with an array onlineAccumulated forward; not recomputed from the log
Sessions filedSessions under eight seconds are not filed
Events loggedStir, excursion and breach are counted separately
Instruments carriedRecorded as each one is used
Sites in the registerLabels held on this device only

This form is completed by the operator’s own browser. If it is still blank, either nothing has been filed yet or this device is not storing anything for the Survey.Registry

TS/ADM/31Amended 1996

On the record

Your designation was assigned the first time you arrived, by your own device, from its own random number generator. The Survey was not involved and could not have been. There is no list of operators anywhere, because there is nowhere for a list to be kept.

What the file holds is what your instruments measured: how long the array was online, what the floor of each room was, how far above it any reading went, which way the instrument was pointed, and whatever you chose to write against it afterwards. It holds no location, no device identifier and nothing that could be used to work out who you are. The one piece of free text on the page — the name of a site — is something you typed for your own benefit, and it stays in this browser with everything else.

The Survey is aware that this is a poor way to run an archive. Records are lost when a phone is replaced, when browsing data is cleared, and when a browser decides on its own that a site it has not seen for months no longer needs its storage. All of that is true and none of it is going to be fixed, because the alternative is a database with your readings in it and that is a worse thing to be.

It is, however, an excellent way to run a privacy policy. Take the export if the file matters to you.

Entertainment only
TS/PER/00Standing

What the grades mean

The Survey grades operators from IV to I, and the grades are conditions of service rather than awards. Each is a statement that a certain amount of measured fieldwork is on file — hours with an array online, sessions filed, sectors of the circle actually swept, breaches recorded. Nothing accrues for visiting the site and nothing accrues faster for pressing anything. Work done against the desktop bench simulation is retained and is not service.

What a grade grants is a memo. The programme has been running since 1974 on methodology notes typed and amended by hand, and the memoranda are how an operator with a hundred hours was told the next thing. They are on your clearance sheet as they are issued.

None of it is a claim that you have found anything. Nobody here has ever said the instruments detect the paranormal — see the disclaimer and, for what each reading is actually made of, the instrument methodology.