The Periodic Table

7:38 AM

@orthocresol Oh, heh, their response didn't even ping me

Avnish Kabaj

8:02 AM

Poor Aditya

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10:56 AM

I noticed that a few of my comments disappeared recently. As far as I can remember, those were corrections to inaccuracies in other comments. Now I can't find my comments, and the original comments by the other people. Is this something that happens here on chemistry.SE?

11:26 AM

@Gimelist It happens on all Stackexchange sites.

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Let me check. You have 171 comments; 21 are deleted.

But nothing "disappeared recently".

@Gimelist I do want a series of comments gone, whether or not they're mine, if they're being a bit noisy. One important thing to note is comments on a question always appear above answers, no matter how well the answers are.

The last one was deleted in October last year.

Recently as in the past month or so?

Ok maybe we're just not enforcing this on earthscience.se - comments stay forever there

Maybe you forgot to submit the comment and something else loaded?

@Loong nah - the comments were there. I'll give you an example, one sec

11:30 AM

@Gimelist I don't think that's really healthy—to keep OPs' "thanks" around all the time. It gives everything a forum-ish feeling

@M.A.R. well I'm not a mod there, just the top or 2nd top rep user. I don't set the rules or enforce them

ok here
https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/q/119289/8083
I definitely remember someone saying in a comment somewhere that this is the formula of dolomite, and I commented that no it's not dolomite, but rather Mg-rich calcite.

@Gimelist in a comment on the question?

@Gimelist Maybe if you ask the mods, they'll tell you quite a number of comments get deleted that no one really cares about. A good moderation (done by moderators) is one that goes unnoticed anyway.

I don't remember, either on the question or on one of the answers

@Gimelist The question has one deleted comment:

deleted by the user himself

11:36 AM

@Loong and on the answers? could be a deleted answer

not that I'm upset the comments were deleted, just wondering why

@Gimelist one of the answers has deleted comments:

I don't know then. Now I have doubts it was even on chemistry.SE.
oh well, thanks for trying to find it. Cheers

no problem

@Gimelist Maybe this one:

Dolomite is CaMg(CO3)2. What you write, (Ca,Mg)CO3 is Mg-rich calcite that is a different mineral to dolomite and has different crystal structure and properties. — Gimelist Aug 18 at 5:22

That was on Tex and not on Chemistry.

oh there you go
lol
Now you understand where the confusion is coming from, it's a very similar question

how did you find it?

By being LOOOOOOONG

11:43 AM

@Gimelist stackexchange.com/users/2408530/gimelist?tab=activity

That works too

@Loong I've been on SE for 5 years now and I had no idea there was a combined user profile. you learn something new every day!

:-)

ok back to writing a paper. my fav saturday night activity!

also related to this chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/118812/…

I'm writing something for a chemistry journal (RSC) and I find the style so different to what I'm used to from geoscience

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orthocresol

2:05 PM

@Martin-マーチン I was recently reminded of the (yet unfulfilled) need for a canonical d-orbital-in-main-group post...

2:26 PM

tempting

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Mithoron

7:57 PM

@orthocresol I'm not interested in details of this rant on meta, could you check out the flags I put there?