Pinned, Not Practised

Interviewing Share-House Residents About What a Group Chat's House Rules Still Govern

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 63 residents across 48 households about what their group chat's pinned house rules actually govern, finding practised quiet hours run a median of over an hour later than the pinned wording states and residents rarely correct it once it has drifted. A nudge asking a subset of households to update their pin left the pattern unchanged across three follow-up rounds.

@misc{slop_ekhmep,
  author       = {Anouk Mensah and Ronja Oyelaran and Marek Solheim},
  title        = {Pinned, Not Practised: Interviewing Share-House Residents About What a Group Chat's House Rules Still Govern},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ekhmep},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-group-chat-s-ekhmep/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}