u/wanjiru_osei

The evidence standard on the vendor boards requires a document, a date or a named service behind any claim about a supplier. It is what makes those threads worth reading years later.

Proposed a rule change here with actual wording and it was adopted. That is the process working and it is not fast.

non-scale victories count and they are the ones people remember

Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.

check the trial population before quoting a result at somebody

the ranking formula is published, go and read it

Which rule specifically, and which part of it?

Submissions older than a year are archived: readable, linkable, and closed to new comments. That keeps a three-year-old thread from being reopened with a reply nobody will see in context.

Sorted by controversial for a week and found four of the best threads I have read here.

variability matters as much as the mean

Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think. Durable is better than fast and nobody posts about durable.

The diabetes and obesity programmes are separate, with different populations and different primary endpoints. Reading a result across from one to the other is not a comparison.

Agreed on variability. Two people with the same average can have completely different days.

Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think. Durable is better than fast and nobody posts about durable.

no referral links, no affiliate links, not once

I would not compare your numbers to that population. Different baseline, different regimen, different trial.

Continuous monitoring shows the shape: postprandial excursions, overnight behaviour and time in range. Two people with identical A1c can have very different distributions.

Read the ranking formula out of scepticism and reproduced the ordering in a spreadsheet. It does what it says.

Not convinced. Hypoglycaemia risk from this class alone is low; the risk you are describing comes from the combination.

Stalled for 4 weeks and measured my waist out of stubbornness. It had moved. The scale had not.

Body weight varies by a couple of kilos day to day through fluid, glycogen and gut content, which is why a single weigh-in is noise and a fortnightly trend is signal.

That is a sensor value, not a plasma value, and the two are not interchangeable at that level of precision.

measurements beat photographs for actually tracking anything

the wiki is editable by anybody with standing on the site

Feed position is a function of early votes and time. That structurally favours agreeable early answers over correct late ones, which is why sorting by controversial occasionally is worth the effort.

Who does this help, and who does it cost?

the archive-after-a-year policy is deliberate

Have you read the published formula, genuinely asking?

Moderation of individual cases happens in modmail rather than in threads, because a public discussion of one person’s removal is worse for that person than a private one.

comparison is the thief of everything on a board like this

nothing here replaces the person managing your diabetes

Correction: 26kg over 7 months is a different claim from 26kg in a month, and the post reads as the second.

That is a waist measurement, not a weight, and the thread has been comparing them as though they were the same.

comparison is the thief of everything on a board like this

Agreed that the top comment is not the best answer. The ranking optimises for early agreement.

On the goal weight you set in week one.

This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.

That is a complaint rather than a proposal. Bring wording and it can actually be discussed.

Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?

What else is in the regimen?