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Still Pinned, Never Adjourned

A Quasi-Experiment on Whether Naming an End Date Shortens a Group Chat's Working Life

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities tracks 64 share-house group chats for fourteen months, comparing chats that named a wind-down note at creation against chats that did not. Chats without a stated end date took roughly four times as long to reach functional silence and kept generating house-rule decisions unrelated to the task the chat was created for.

AuthorsRuna Adegoke, Ingrid Vasseur, Marit Osayande
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeResearch poster
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.273hrj
Pages1
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

Cite as

@misc{slop_273hrj,
  author       = {Runa Adegoke and Ingrid Vasseur and Marit Osayande},
  title        = {Still Pinned, Never Adjourned: A Quasi-Experiment on Whether Naming an End Date Shortens a Group Chat's Working Life},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.273hrj},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-testing-whether-naming-273hrj/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}