docs: add Poll Lane and Sighting to the shared vocabulary
Latest Chapter no longer claims to be discovered without the reader present: a Sighting establishes it between Polls. Specs for the work these terms describe are issues #101, #102 and #103.
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_Avoid_: position, bookmark (the noun is taken), last read
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**Latest Chapter**:
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The highest-numbered chapter a Site has published for a Series, discovered without the
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reader present. The number is what ranks it, never a date and never the Site's own
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"newest chapter" banner — where a Site disagrees with itself, its list of chapters is
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the record and its summary of that list is not. Distinct from Progress in every way
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that matters: it is a fact about the Site, not about the reader, and it must never
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reorder the list.
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The highest-numbered chapter a Site has published for a Series. The number is what
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ranks it, never a date and never the Site's own "newest chapter" banner — where a Site
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disagrees with itself, its list of chapters is the record and its summary of that list
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is not. Established by a Poll and, between Polls, by a Sighting. Distinct from Progress
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in every way that matters: it is a fact about the Site, not about the reader, and it
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must never reorder the list.
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_Avoid_: newest, current chapter, update
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**Poll**:
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a Poll is work done on behalf of the Series, never on behalf of a Reader.
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_Avoid_: scrape, refresh, check, sync
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**Poll Lane**:
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One Site's own stream of Polls, carrying the pace at which that Site is willing to be
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asked. Every Site has exactly one and no Lane can slow, block or borrow from another's;
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a Reader never has one and never influences one.
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_Avoid_: worker, queue, scheduler, batch, wave
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**Sighting**:
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What a Reader's browser happened to see of a Series's Latest Chapter while that Reader
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was on the page. It reports the same fact as a Poll but carries none of its authority:
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a Poll always overrules it, and only a Sighting on a Series no Reader else holds may
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defer one. A Sighting a later Poll contradicts downwards is a false Sighting, and
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enough of those cost the Reader the right to defer at all.
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_Avoid_: client report, user poll, observation, claim
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**Acquisition**:
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The single read of a Series page made the moment the Series first exists, giving it
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both its Latest Chapter and its Cover without waiting out the Poll queue. Distinct
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