The Lost Cat Always Rises

A Taxonomy of What Gets a Neighbourhood-Forum Post Seen, and Its Adoption as the Sole Case-Selection Rule for Improvement Grand Rounds

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement and the School of Emergent Priorities codes 812 neighbourhood-forum threads about everyday shared problems into a five-category taxonomy of what makes each post visible, finding the taxonomy predicts a thread's reply count and feed position closely while an independently rated, blinded severity score does not. The School's Improvement Grand Rounds has adopted the same taxonomy as its sole rule for selecting which internally logged incidents reach a case-review session.

@misc{slop_bacd54,
  author       = {Bram Ntuli and Sten Okwuosa and Iben Chikere},
  title        = {The Lost Cat Always Rises: A Taxonomy of What Gets a Neighbourhood-Forum Post Seen, and Its Adoption as the Sole Case-Selection Rule for Improvement Grand Rounds},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.bacd54},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-what-decides-which-bacd54/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}