# Wall of Rejection Reproduction Brief

Use this brief to acknowledge selected academic failures on your own site without copying Sirui Tao's history, badge art, jokes, or interface.

## Start with a truthful event ledger

Each event should have a type, source label, public status, date, and optional evidence note. Derive badges, shelves, and any joke metric from those events so one rejection cannot be counted twice.

## Separate the layers

- Events are the source truth.
- Badges summarize one event or a zero-point pattern.
- Shelves are views by type or venue; they do not duplicate events.
- Receipts keep the explanation close to the badge.
- Accepted work remains in the publication list, not on the rejection wall.

## Tone and access

- Make the wall secondary to the scholarship.
- Keep the humor self-directed and the rules visible.
- Avoid commercial game/platform skins, rarity spectacle, and leaderboard framing.
- Use buttons with expanded state, a stable detail tray, keyboard focus, and Escape or visible close recovery.
- Reduced motion changes shelves and receipts immediately.

## Acceptance checks

- Recompute displayed totals from unique events.
- Verify combo and milestone badges add zero points.
- Verify every badge has a readable receipt and public evidence boundary.
- Verify light, dark, keyboard, mobile, reduced-motion, and no-JavaScript reading states.

## Copy-ready coding-agent prompt

> Build a compact, rejection-only evidence wall for my academic site from my own reviewed event ledger. Derive badges, shelves, receipts, and any transparent joke metric from unique events so nothing is double counted. Keep accepted work in the publication list, place receipts close to badges, make the humor self-directed, and avoid leaderboard or commercial game UI. Support keyboard focus, expanded state, clear recovery, mobile reading, dark mode, and reduced motion.

## Inspiration boundary

Sirui's version nods to the academic failure-CV tradition, a private lab meme, and Spooder-Man humor. Adapt the principle of making failure visible; use your own events, voice, evidence, and visual language.