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@@ -329,8 +329,10 @@ node whose document starts from another root of the same epoch refuses the hands
(another history under the swarm's ID: a forged root, or a genesis started again).
A node joining with an empty document takes as its root only the one it was given
(`--genesis-root`), or else the one its peers name, and none while they name different
-ones. So one peer hands a joiner another root only if it is all the joiner hears, or
-never, with `--genesis-root`.
+ones; and none before each of its seeds named one, or ten seconds passed since the
+first did. So without `--genesis-root`, the root is the one the seeds that answer within
+that wait agree on: one peer hands a joiner another root only if it is all the joiner
+hears by then; with `--genesis-root`, never.
What it doesn't do yet: