← all lessonsLESSON 4 OF 8 · TABLE 2: AVOIDING JUDGEMENT, ENCOURAGING QUESTIONS
Clarify
Each author says what their card means. The one rule of this stage: nobody says whether a card is right. Judgement of merit comes later, from the whole group, one pair at a time.
In a card’s side chat someone writes “This is obviously the real cause, the rest are noise.” What do you do?
✗ Not that one. The method’s answer is marked below; read why yours is not it.
Hide the turn — it breaks the stage’s rule.✗ not this · your pick
Hiding is for abuse. This is enthusiasm in the wrong stage. Hidden turns also carry no lesson; the person learns nothing.
Nothing yet — the reader will have shown the author it reads as judging merit, and the round robin means they cannot post again until others have.✓ what the method does
The stage’s rule is carried by the reader, author-facing, before a turn posts. If it posted anyway, the round robin limits the damage. Intervene only if it repeats.
Reply in the chat that judgement is not allowed here.✗ not this
You would be the second person judging in a thread about not judging, and the steward waits for their turn like anyone.
ON THIS PLATFORM
At Clarify the reader checks that a clarification says what a card means rather than argues for it. An author sees a count of unanswered questions in their card’s thread. Two wordings become one claim only when two people confirm it.