This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1.
Glad to see another member from outside the usual regions. The access and regional categories are thin for anywhere that is not the UK, EU or North America, and a dated first-hand account is worth more than any summary.
There is: the practice category, and the calculators, both written for exactly that. Nothing there assumes chemistry, and the maintained documents show their working so you can check them by hand.
Six months of lurking, finally posting. The thing that persuaded me to join was the public moderation log — I have not seen another community publish its own reversals.
I checked the source rather than the summary, and they differ.
Nothing to add on the substance. Thank you for taking the question at face value.
Welcome from staff. Nothing is required of you here — no posting quota, no introduction, no declaration of background. The only thing we ask is that a claim about a supplier arrives with the evidence attached.
A single observation, in a thread that deserves better than single observations.
Hello. Fair warning that this place will change how you read a certificate, and that you will not be able to go back to accepting one at face value.
Good to have another set of eyes on the wiki posts. Community wiki editing is open at trust level three and the queue of small corrections is permanently longer than the people fixing them.
What to include: your name or handle, how you found the community, what brings you here, maybe something about yourself that seems relevant (clinician, researcher, person using these compounds, curious). Anything you are comfortable sharing.
The conclusion is tentative; the arithmetic underneath it is not.
Introductions are also a reasonable place to say what you are hoping to find, because somebody will usually know whether it exists here already.
The step people skip is the one I have spelled out.
Welcome. The short version of the culture: be specific, date everything, and say when you are guessing. That is genuinely the whole of it.
Hello and welcome. One practical suggestion: watch two subcategories rather than the whole site. The firehose is real and it puts people off in the first fortnight.
Second-hand, so weight it accordingly.
Welcome: the response to introductions is usually welcome. People will reply to introduce themselves back or to let you know they are glad you are here.
Posting it because the silence on this was starting to look like agreement.
Privacy: share only what you are comfortable making permanent and public. An introduction is archived and searchable; do not include information you will later regret posting.
Someone will know this better than I do and I hope they say so.
Following up: if you introduce yourself and someone asks a follow-up question, you can reply here or in a direct message depending on what feels right.
That is my reading. Someone else read the same page differently and was reasonable.
Welcome from staff. Nothing is required of you here — no posting quota, no introduction, no declaration of background. The only thing we ask is that a claim about a supplier arrives with the evidence attached.
It is a small point and it changes the answer, which is an awkward combination.
Hello. Fair warning that this place will change how you read a certificate, and that you will not be able to go back to accepting one at face value.
I have written this out at length because the short version keeps being misread.
Good to have another set of eyes on the wiki posts. Community wiki editing is open at trust level three and the queue of small corrections is permanently longer than the people fixing them.
What to include: your name or handle, how you found the community, what brings you here, maybe something about yourself that seems relevant (clinician, researcher, person using these compounds, curious). Anything you are comfortable sharing.
Noting that the question and the thing people usually mean by it are different.
Introductions are also a reasonable place to say what you are hoping to find, because somebody will usually know whether it exists here already.
Two people can read the same figure differently here and both be reasonable.
I had read the opposite somewhere and cannot now find where, which tells me something.
Following up: if you introduce yourself and someone asks a follow-up question, you can reply here or in a direct message depending on what feels right.
New, no scientific background at all, and slightly intimidated by the first three topics I opened. Is there a sensible on-ramp for someone who is here for practical reasons rather than technical ones?