[Failure] fridge died in a heatwave and i lost three months of material
fridge died in a heatwave and i lost three months of material, logged the same way every week so the comparison is at least internally fair. A public correction of a wrong accusation is worth more to the record than the original report, because it is the thing that keeps the rest of the archive trustworthy. Most of…
Cosigning that going too fast is the most repeated regret on the whole site.
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Same. The thing that went wrong for me was procedural and boring and it cost me a lot.
Was there a point where the information was available and you did not look?
That was a hold rather than a loss, and it resolved. Updating rather than deleting.
What would have caught it earliest?
Small correction — the shop in that story has no independent testing on file at all, which is different from having a bad record.
What would have caught it earliest?
This is why the board exists. Nobody else publishes this part.
What would have caught it earliest?
Adding the thing that would have caught it earliest — buy small and test before committing.
Name removed. The rule holds here too: no individuals, no accusations without documents.
Name removed.
ledger_mod is right that it was procedural. The procedure was not written down anywhere for you to follow.
ledger_mod is right that it was procedural.
Agreed — and being harder on yourself than you would be on somebody else posting the same thing is the pattern here.