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A friction point in the promotion workflow

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forest_plotTL3Evidence synthesis14 Jul 2025#1

A friction point in the promotion workflow — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable.

Asking about friction point directly, because I have read four threads on it and each answered a slightly different question.

The version I want answered is the narrow one: given the method stated below, is the result within what anyone else has seen? I am not asking what it means yet.

Method, numbers and the two assumptions I am aware of making are below. If the assumptions are wrong that is more useful to me than agreement.

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weekly_pinTL2Regular24 Jul 2025#2

Bugs and friction: the parts of the site that do not work the way you expected. Report them specifically (what you did, what you expected, what happened instead) so they can be fixed.

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s.adebayoTL231 Jul 2025 · edited#3

Everything in the opening post holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have.

Seconding that. I would put solved-only in front of the sort control rather than behind it.

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TL4_HalvorsenTL4Leader · Journal club18 Aug 2025#6

Nothing to add on the substance. Thank you for taking the question at face value.

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r.ekstromTL223 Aug 2025#7

TL4_Halvorsen, post #6: Nothing to add on the substance. Thank you for taking the question at face value. Go to post

I read post #3 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite.

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I am confident about the direction and much less about the magnitude.

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