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mr_lebowski

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7. It is possible ...

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #2)

Sun May 17, 2020, 05:43 PM

May 2020

Chart making tools typically allow for sort orders to be set ... you could set it for 'by date ascending' or 'by count descending'. It's POSSIBLE someone could've been looking at it in one mode and forgot to set it back before release.

That said ... making that mistake 3 times is extremely unlikely.

And if it was not PERFECTLY in descending order (e.g. only some of the data in the chart followed that pattern), that would also be extremely suspect.

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