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CowperKettle

06:20

@MattDMo Thank you, Matt!

I wonder if "Assay" is synonymous with "Main substance content"

I have a lot of Shewhan charts for incoming raw materials (quality assessment)

The charts are names like "Hydrochloric acid. Main substance content, %"

I wonder if I can just write "Assay"

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rg255

09:23

wasn't suspension a bit harsh @WYSIWYG? the guy just commented on a few posts using answers, didn't he just needed to be told how the site works?biology.stackexchange.com/users/25816/…

WYSIWYG

10:05

@rg255 4 poor answers in a span of 1 hour. I told him how the site works. Suspended him just for the weekend. There won't be much traffic in the weekend anyway. On weekdays users can monitor his activity.

Chris

10:32

Additionally he started to argue below one of the "answers" when people said this is not ok.

"

i was just working my brain... im not the smartest but im not a dummy and i got the right to answer with questions or hypothesis right... or am i just being a douche? that should have been my question... anyway... how do i earn more rep then? – kevin theodore Littleworth 2 hours ago"

terdon

@Chris That looks like he's actually asking how the site works, not arguing. He's just not very good at expressing himself. Really bad at it, actually.

In all frankness, I don't think his contributions will be missed.

Chris

@terdon If he is not learning how to do it, most likely not.

WYSIWYG

11:01

@terdon And I guess he can find other things to spend time in the weekend. It is just a 3 day suspension. I did it primarily because there is a very low traffic in weekends and someone may plant a crap that may go unnoticed :D

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rg255

14:49

Terdon is probably right, it's likely no great loss - but personally I think it was a bit excessive, he had no fair opportunity to change his behaviour - it's probably just put him off ever coming back rather than making think about correcting himself

Chris

15:14

Got my T-Shirt today...

MattDMo

@CowperKettle did you mean Shewhart charts?

@CowperKettle My office is in with the Quality people, so I'm just waiting for the person who handles this stuff here gets back so I can ask.

CowperKettle

16:11

@MattDMo Great! Thank you, Matt! I translated it as Main substance content to be on the safe side, but I've read and "assay" seems okay too, but I'll need to read more.

BBL

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arboviral

17:20

Stupid question time: why has this question popped back to the front? http://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/17823/how-deep-does-water-have-to-be-so-a-mosquito-can-lay-viable-eggs-in-it
It says it was modified 4 hours ago by 'Community' but neither the question nor the answer seem to have been edited recently.

MattDMo

No idea. Maybe somebody commented, then deleted the comment? A mod might be able to see more details...

Chris

@arboviral This is a bot from the stackexchange network.

Apart from taking the authorship for deleted users (for spam reasons for example) he also does: "Randomly poke old unanswered questions* every hour so they get some attention" See here.

arboviral

17:53

@Chris Aha, thanks. You learn something new every day!

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