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Add big red warnings about stats being bad and misleading to stats pages #15

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DanielOaks opened this issue May 9, 2016 · 1 comment
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Stats are bad and people should not take them as gospel. There are many different interpretations people can make based on how stats are presented to them and the various sorts of processing they undergo.

We should have some big red warnings up the top about this, and particularly about our (current) lack of usercount-based thresholds (#14) and our lack of network size normalization (#6). That just bolded text up the top doesn't exactly cut it and stand out when the pages are mostly colourful anyway.

I don't think these warnings should ever be removed, even after #6 and #14 are implemented. Stats can be misleading or used to push various agendas (esp. based on the ircd and services detection we do), so we should alert users to this in all cases.

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DanielOaks commented May 9, 2016

This is mostly implemented with cc90758, but I want to experiment with a static one down the bottom or somewhere as well (for when users are linked to somewhere in the middle of the page instead).

@DanielOaks DanielOaks changed the title Add big red warnings up the top of stats pages Add big red warnings about stats being bad and misleading to stats pages May 9, 2016
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