“You’re on Mute” as a Point of Order

Does the call decide whose remark reaches the minutes?

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement follows 1,486 remarks begun while muted across 57 community-committee video meetings, sorting each by how quickly someone called "you're on mute" and by whether it reached the circulated minutes. Remarks alerted within six seconds were minuted at 29%, against 64% for later alerts, with coded subject matter accounting for little of the gap. On that finding the University binds its committees to a Six-Second Hold on the call, and to minuting every muted remark as lip-read from the gallery view, with no discretion in the chair to omit it.

@misc{slop_j1gtrv,
  author       = {Sten Okwuosa and Osei Vandermeer and Dagny Okafor},
  title        = {“You’re on Mute” as a Point of Order: Does the call decide whose remark reaches the minutes?},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.j1gtrv},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-does-a-you-re-j1gtrv/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}