Regulatory guidance that arrives after the affected communities have already lived through the problem and built informal responses to it occupies an awkward position: it cannot orient those communities, and it cannot deter actors who were never going to comply. The Electoral Commission's guide lands in that position. The Bluesky reaction to the campaigning guide's AI disinformation clause was not surprise — it was the flat recognition of people reading a rule that describes their experience without adding anything to it. The community had already adapted to a world…