{
  "handle": "Silencevote",
  "gloss": "Count only explicit assent as acceptance; record silence as silence",
  "mechanism": "A proposal counts as accepted only by explicit assent. A party's {{silence}} is recorded as silence, separately from assent and from objection, with its reason asked for where possible, and it is never counted as agreement.",
  "invariants": [
    "Acceptance is recorded only from explicit assent.",
    "Silence is recorded separately from assent and from objection."
  ],
  "failure_modes": [
    "Abilene drift: a group adopts what nobody wanted because nobody objected.",
    "Assent fatigue: explicit assent becomes a reflex given without reading."
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "path": [
      "Society",
      "Protocols"
    ],
    "ring": 2,
    "tier": 2,
    "related": [
      "Consensus#b9a5",
      "Belongbend"
    ],
    "minted": "2026-10-05T21:38:21+02:00"
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Silencevote#mh:SHA-256:b022a4ad1e752e8da60651c129a2fac0db03ec8643c9a386fcd25698f4157c0c",
  "sema_ref": "Silencevote#b022",
  "sema_stub": "b022",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "silence": "sema:Silence#mh:SHA-256:164514c0b493a18d2fea5edb243314adfaa5193d5dd9014b8a9c2d01a362a57f"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Society",
  "sema_category": "Protocols",
  "used_by": {}
}