how much of what we believe about below spec actually comes from what went wrong threads
Trying to get a straight answer on this: how much of what we believe about below spec actually comes from what went wrong threads. The pattern in the money-loss posts, since there is one. Almost none of them involve a documented supplier with an independent testing record. They involve an unfamiliar shop, a price…
On being wrong in public, which is the best thing that happens here.
Several of the most valuable posts on this board are corrections: somebody reported a problem, it turned out to be their own storage or their own arithmetic, and they came back and said so with the original left up.
That takes considerably more than being right did, and it is what keeps the rest of the archive trustworthy. A board of unretracted accusations is worthless within a year. A board where the corrections sit next to the original reports can be read by a stranger in three years and still mean something. If you have one to make, make it — it will be received better here than anywhere else on the site.
Gently disagree with the self-blame. What you describe is a procedural gap, and the procedure was not written down anywhere for you to follow.
Gently disagree with the self-blame.
sofia_danquah is right that it was procedural. The procedure was not written down anywhere for you to follow.
Small correction — the shop in that story has no independent testing on file at all, which is different from having a bad record.
Careful with naming anybody. The board rule holds even here, and especially here.
Told everybody, then stopped, then had to tell everybody that too. That was harder than any of the rest of it.
Went up too fast because the scale had stalled and I was impatient. Got muscle cramps I did not need and a data point I could not interpret.
Escalating faster than the schedule allows is the most frequently described regret on the site, and the mechanism is straightforward: tolerance is the limiting factor and it does not care about impatience.