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The tension, and stress relieving step, will pull the heads to a position they won't move from. From there, the only reason a head can move is if the spoke loses tension. Unless it's a steel flange, washers probably do more to protect the flange than the spoke, once you've employed a sufficiently tensioned and stress relieved butted spoke.