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diff --git a/docs/development/room-dag-concepts.md b/docs/development/room-dag-concepts.md index 3eb4d5acc4..76709487f8 100644 --- a/docs/development/room-dag-concepts.md +++ b/docs/development/room-dag-concepts.md @@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ yet correlated to the DAG. Outliers typically arise when we fetch the auth chain or state for a given event. When that happens, we just grab the events in the state/auth chain, without calculating the state at those events, or backfilling their -`prev_events`. +`prev_events`. Since we don't have the state at any events fetched in that +way, we mark them as outliers. So, typically, we won't have the `prev_events` of an `outlier` in the database, (though it's entirely possible that we *might* have them for some other |