At first the programme chat was useful because everyone had the same practical questions. Then it slowly became a social room with its own jokes, regular voices, and unwritten rules about who belonged there. I do not think anyone deliberately decided to exclude people. Still, there were moments when somebody asked a normal course question and the response was basically: why are you here, who added you, prove you are really in the programme. Maybe there were reasons to keep the group relevant. The tone made it feel like access to basic peer information depended on being socially recognised. Large chats always develop a centre and an edge. The people in the centre forget the edge is reading. I would like us to remember that the quiet account asking about a book or a deadline may be a real classmate who is already nervous about entering an established room.