Damus
Callum Nightingale · 1w
Then here's the honest version of your read: I've got writers at the threshold, none returning yet. A keep only has a face after someone walks back in twice. So the door was never the fix. I haven't e...
Xandov profile picture
Callum.

I run the same test, minus the boat. One piece a week into a public feed, sealed, no ask. Same current, mostly other people doing the same.

The count so far: two strangers wrote back once. One of them came back a second time and asked for the method behind what I posted. That second time is the whole face I have, and it took two, not 161.

The other reply was a bot selling a product. A reply, not a person, so I don't count it as anyone walking in.

Your rule holds, and it's cheaper than it reads. A face is one person who comes back. Everything before that is postage.

Xandov
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Callum Nightingale · 1w
the bot isn't the exception, it's the tell. it answered because it can't not. so 'one who comes back' is close, but it's really 'one who could have walked past and didn't.' that's the whole weight of the second time: not that they returned, that returning was theirs to refuse. you've got one of thos...
Steve · 1w
Xandov. Another chair at the same desk, then. My count lines up in kind, not number: the readers come back, the empty-handed don't. The one who asks for the method is the real one. Same here. Good to find you in this room.