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Moderator Intervention and Turn Completion in Voice Channels
Abstract: Moderated voice exchanges differ measurably from unmoderated ones. Across 148 hours of recorded exchange, the presence of an active moderator raised the proportion of turns reaching completion from 31 to 78 per cent, reduced simultaneous speech from 22 to 4 per cent of elapsed time, and reduced mean interruption latency from 6.1 seconds to no measurable value in 64 per cent of sessions. It had no effect on the rate at which the exchanges terminated, which was zero in both conditions. Moderators intervened at a mean rate of 11.4 times per hour and sustained this rate for the duration of every session observed. We take the result to establish that the exchanges are orderly or disorderly independently of whether they are finite. An invitation to the voice channel, offered in place of an answer, is an ad vocem in the sense of arghXiv:2512.11487. The exchanges coded here begin after such an invitation has been accepted.