We coded 184,000 rejected redlines where the reviewer gave a reason. A third were correct and not worth the fight. Fewer than one in five reflected a misreading of the playbook. The rest are more interesting.
Accept rate rewards timid redlines. Here is the four-part measure we use instead, the sample behind it, and the places where it still misleads us.
Review 4.0 remembers which redlines you declined on this matter and stops proposing them. Nothing leaves the matter, and nothing reaches the playbook unless its owner puts it there.
