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Loong

3:31 PM

There is no usage guidance for mole.

Any ideas?

Gaurang Tandon

4:07 PM

@Loong can be used in any question that involves moles? A lot of tags don't have usage guidances - perhaps because, I believe, that the only usage guidance for tag X would be "used for questions involving X". Like physical-chemistry

Do you have a proposal to narrow its scope?

Hmm, the room is quite these days

Hehe, the red @hBy2Py stealthily turned into a green @hBy2Dragon :P What happened?

Avnish Kabaj

4:20 PM

hBy2Dr

Gaurang Tandon

@AvnishKabaj hBy2Dirac?

obackhouse

Is the 6-character limit on edits particularly practical?

For example, I noticed an error in an equation on somebodies answer to my question

but I can't change just a sign because it wants me to change at least 6 characters

Loong

@obackhouse No.

hBy2Py

@GaurangTandon Brand management. :-)

See, e.g. bskinn.github.io

@obackhouse I find it more annoying than not, but the SE team had to have had some reason for implementing it.

Gaurang Tandon

@hBy2Py Hmm interesting :) Looking at that GH page though...you're a chemistry PhD and you're blogging about every stuff that's non-chemistry :O That's very cool, versatile/broad knowledge of everything!

oh nvm just noticed it's an exclusively "python hobbyist"'s blog, so no Chem allowed there :P

obackhouse

4:45 PM

I guess to try and force people to offer valuable edits with a tangible change or correction, rather than people just nitpicking - I still don't see the point though.

If that's SE in general and not just chemistry.SE then I guess my opinion isn't particularly relevant though :D

hBy2Py

5:02 PM

@GaurangTandon I'm considering changing that tagline, since I've written about so much other than Python there so far.

@obackhouse Yeah, it's across all sites in the network. Note that you can make single-character edits on your own posts, at least.

Gaurang Tandon

@hBy2Py considering that they allow +2k editors to make these <6 chars edits, I don't indeed see the point of restricting -2k users

Bounty Hunter

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