Comment by trashtester

> My assertion is that it is very very easy to miss "easy rules that were emergent and are working well"

You are right, at least for people who have poor social skills, are emotionally unstable or immature in some way, including people with autism, ADHD, dementia, children, etc.

With such people arround, it may be better to have clearly defined rules for who speaks when. The same goes in situations where people come from very different background or there are very low levels of trust to start with.

The better a group of people are at communicating in a cooperative manner, the fewer hard rules are needed.