Introducing myself: pharmacist, sceptic, reluctant participant

Introducing myself: pharmacist, sceptic, reluctant participant Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did.

Introducing myself before I ask anything, since the welcome post suggests it and it seems only polite.

I have been reading here for a while without posting. My background is not scientific and I have found the documentation pages readable anyway, which I do not think is an accident.

What I would like to know is which parts of the site the people who have been here longest actually use, as opposed to which parts are most visible.

If you are arriving from somewhere louder, the pace here will feel slow. A topic can sit for two days and then get a reply that is worth the wait. That is the design working.

Someone should write this up properly, and it should probably not be me.

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.

Community culture: introductions give you a sense of who is here. Reading a few introduces you to the people and the tone of the community.

The step people skip is the one I have spelled out.

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.