I am looking to measure something with .1mg/.0001g accuracy. Anyone have any idea where I could go to temporarily use a scale like this? The scales on amazon are rather expensive. Please ping me thanks!

Paying would be okay

@Hexacoordinate-C well almost

@hBy2Py the conspiracy runs deep

!!/alive

@GaurangTandon yes, you're alive!

let's see what all happened here this fortnight

oh oh that meta post...

Honestly though, as long as the message is correct and actionable, I don't care whether the person is a meta.SE troll, or a relatively new user of Chem.SE. I think I agree with penta here, the only major flaw in that meta post is that it is too vague to be actionable. There aren't just enough stats at the moment to prove if we actually get a lot of off topic unsalvageable questions or if we are actually more strict than necessary.

A better way to put the message across would have been as in Recent close statistics - with a clear message and some definite questions.

though the lack of definite statistics really troubles my mind. @M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ it's definitely not a "molehill". the fact that more than half of the questions that our site gets actually don't belong to our site should indeed be cause for concern

honestly, I find Martin's answer really vague. "Hence I also think there are plenty a many unwarranted closures or at least ambiguous ones. ... I think some more leniency would benefit us." is sort of what peterh was also suggesting

This isn't rude or anything right?

@AvnishKabaj I don't think there was any point in engaging with the OP any further

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@pentavalentcarbon thanks for your reply on that repo. just went through it, and you've raised some really interesting points. I would probably take some time to write a proper response to that, and reconsider my stance on what I was proposing

> Nobody likes to sit around and closevote for the sake of it.

I think they do...

^^^ reviewing close votes often makes me feel: "why would people want to close this question as X?", and the lack of any comments definitely makes it feel like that...

Time to check the queues...

yeah, actually too many...

loads

I don't remember what I wrote, I'll have to reread it

ok...I feel like I could have gotten to the point quicker, but I remember now

Oh @GaurangTandon You are back, how is it going?

@Abcd I would suggest PBr3, then make a Grignard and quench with D2O

@AvnishKabaj it's certainly not rude, but it might be anything. Hmm, maybe it's anything

@GaurangTandon If you wanna feed the troll, be my guest

I'd rather have the discussion with someone who has actually good intentions

I raised this point several months ago. However, people seem to not think it’s a problem.

@GaurangTandon I didn't say the issue he brought is a molehill. Anything you say, whether you disagree with him or not, here's gonna reply with "your site is suffocating". How will that result in constructive discussion, I dunno

@orthocresol too much crap?

i.e., “let’s wait for the situation to improve without doing anything”.

Hmm, I think that's because the fix requires some inspired and persistent effort

But as I said in a comment, it’s really two problems in one.

Ya know, TRE-like investment

First is that the average question that comes in is not great. Second is that we close stuff that doesn’t really need to be closed.

Yeah, I agree. It’s not a quick fix.

We didn't have the investment then, but we might now with the new guys

Unfortunately, I won't be able to invest much until after transplant

Which is in almost a month and half if things go as planned