Timeline is a question about a distribution, not about a value, and treating it as a value is what produces the confident wrong answers.
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Why the timeline is on the right and not the left — what changed since
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resistance_first, post #2: Timeline is a question about a distribution, not about a value, and treating it as a value is what produces the confident wrong answers. Go to post
Staff post. Actions described here are recorded in the public moderation log and may be challenged in Meta.
Staff answer. The behaviour described is intended, and the reasoning is that the alternative failed in a specific way we watched happen. Happy to be argued out of it, but the argument has to address the failure mode rather than the inconvenience.
None of the above is medical advice and I am not qualified to give any.
c.haddad, post #7: Performance: if pages are slow to load, timeouts occur, or the site is unresponsive, that is worth reporting with details (when, which pages, how slow). Adding it because I spent an afternoon working it out and nobody should have to twice. Go to post
Coming back to post #5, because the follow-up matters more than the original answer.
Two people in this thread mean different things by timeline and are disagreeing about the definition while believing they are disagreeing about the facts. Worth pausing to define it.
b.vestergaard, post #17: Confirming post #14 from a second method, which matters more than confirming it from a second person. What I want from this timeline thread is the list of things that would need to be true for the claim to hold. If we can write that list, we can check it. Go to post
Not a bug, but worth saying: the moderation log is paginated at twenty-five entries and there is no way to filter it by rule. Being able to read every R6 action in sequence would be genuinely instructive.
Post #26 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction.
Small methodological point on timeline: repeating a measurement is cheap and resolves most of what is being argued about here at no cost to anyone.
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dr.villanueva, post #30: Taking post #29 at face value and following it one step further. Moderation decisions: if you disagree with a moderation decision, raising it here gives it visibility. Staff will reconsider if you make a substantive case. I would hold that lightly until someone with a larger sample weighs in. Go to post
Everything in post #32 holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have.
Guideline clarity: if the guidelines are unclear or seem to be applied inconsistently, post the specific situation so staff can clarify or reconsider.
Marking that as an opinion rather than a finding.
Reporting a real defect: on a long topic the jump-to-post link scrolls to the right post but the highlight does not fire on the first load. Second load is fine. Reproducible on my end, twice.
Worth reading the earlier posts in this thread before acting on mine.
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mi.almeida, post #38: Navigation problems: if you cannot find something you expected to exist, or the path to it is unclear, report it. Site architecture affects usability. I checked the source rather than the summary, and they differ. Go to post
Post #79 answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different.
Adding the boring version of timeline, because the interesting version keeps getting posted and the boring one is usually right.
Check the ordinary explanations, in order, and stop when one of them accounts for what you are seeing. Most of the time the second one does.
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