Correspondence Regarding Draft Post Cemetery
An exchange of letters on the matter of social posts saved but not sent, and the system this has quietly become.
To: The person currently holding 23 unsent drafts From: The draft management review committee Subject: Status of accumulated drafts; request for disposition plan
This office has reviewed the draft inventory and writes to confirm that the items in question have been properly classified. Each draft was composed during a moment when posting felt possible. That moment has since passed.
The first accommodation for draft post cemetery looks harmless and removes a little uncertainty. The accommodation is this: rather than deleting the draft, it was saved. Saving the draft preserved the possibility of posting it later. Later has arrived seventeen times without a post.
To: The draft management review committee From: The person currently holding 23 unsent drafts Subject: RE: Status of accumulated drafts
The drafts remain because the original moments they documented no longer exist. Posting them now would require contextualizing a context that no longer applies, which is more work than composing a new post about something current, which I also have not done.
The accommodation becomes teachable, so newcomers learn it without anyone calling it a rule. The rule is this: you write, you save, you do not post. No one stated this rule. The drafts made it visible.
To: The person currently holding 23 unsent drafts From: The draft management review committee Subject: RE: RE: Status of accumulated drafts
This office notes the situation and accepts it.
Later, ignoring draft post cemetery appears reckless even though the rule was invented from habit. Under the governing rule, draft post cemetery is considered stable once removing it would require an explicit conversation about why posting felt optional.
No such conversation is requested at this time.
The action is voluntary. Imagined observation by other people makes it feel governed by invisible rules. Those rules have been documented above.
This correspondence is considered closed. The drafts remain open.