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Clarify that we mark as outliers because we don't have any state for …
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As discussed at #12179 (comment)
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MadLittleMods committed Mar 31, 2022
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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
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