It ought to work

It ought to work... but it does not!

A list of reasonable statements that you should not try to prove because they are false

"The compatibility degree in a cluster algebra with skew-symmetric B-matrix ought to be symmetric"

The easyest counterexample I have comes from surfaces: take an anulus with one marked point per boundary component with a single puncture. Consider the arc connecting the exterior boundary to the puncture with a notch at the puncture and the loop based at the puncture. These two arcs have compatibility degree 1 and 2. For more about this see Fomin-Shapiro-Thurston.
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