The Periodic Table

Safdar

10:58

@orthocresol @FadedGiant Sorry for the ping. But would it be possible to IP ban this user. Seems as though his only goal in life is to convert EDTA into its chemical formula in this answer. chemistry.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/123433 Can

orthocresol

@hBy2Py I deleted the account... see response to your mod flag for more details (if you are interested).

Let's just say that all of you are being too kind to this person and that if SE had given us the tools to do so, I would have manually IP-blocked this person about 4 years ago.

Safdar

@orthocresol How many spam rejects does it take?

orthocresol

11:13

I don't know.

hBy2Py

12:36

@orthocresol Oh, wow, you've run into them before?

Hot nitric acid (HNQ)

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Q: Why is black-body radiation curve smooth without a sharp cutoff?

Planck's law is able to predict a graph that is consistent with experimental observation: In essence, unlike Rayleigh-Jeans law that assumes equipartition theorem to hold (that each mode of motion shares equal energy at thermal equilibrium, so all modes excited at thermal equilibrium ⇒ ultraviol...

hBy2Py

Huh!

Well, had I known, I wouldn't've spent the time crafting that comment. I just took him for an overly-zealous empirical-formula fan.

Safdar

@hBy2Py What was it?

hBy2Py

Well-known plagiarizer and spammer, apparently

Safdar

@hBy2Py So it's just gonna keep happening.. great. well, free suggested edits for me :P

hBy2Py

12:42

<nod>, looks like it... started back up with the anonymous edits again.

orthocresol

13:25

I can lock the post again.

Bounty Hunter

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Q: Grasping the concept of Electronic Spin, Effective Spin and Fictitious Spin

Trying to learn alone some aspects of quantum mechanics is, sometimes, a struggle. Reading the excellent paper by Piwowarska (DOI 10.1007/s00723-018-1080-4) I was hoping to, finally, understand what is the origin of the so-called “fictitious spin $1/2$” in a $\mathrm d^7$ cobalt ion. If my cobal...

quantum-chemistry computational-chemistry electrons spin epr-spectroscopy

hBy2Py

Ooh, wow, I can't even edit my own post when it's locked.

@orthocresol Thx - will see if a week is long enough to make him lose interest.

orthocresol

17:01

@hBy2Py May be overboard, but I reckon that nobody really wants to edit the post in the next week, except this guy. ;) It was quite funny reading your (very kind) comment to him.

Their modus operandi is quite unusual. They copy paragraphs of unformatted text from e.g. the first journal abstract they could find on Google, then post a comment on their own answer saying "Since I have given a correct answer to this user's question please award me a bounty worth +50 points in the next 7 days", then self-delete their account.

It has evolved, too. It used to be that they would just copy the text from somebody else's answer on the same question. Then it turned into (uncited) journal abstracts, then it turned into cited journal abstracts (there was no formatting or anything so we continued just deleting as spam), and at some point along the way, they started using mathjax to highlight the "+50" in really bright colours like cyan. (The abstracts are always completely irrelevant to the actual topic.)

Their posts usually get deleted almost instantaneously (sometimes not by us - Charcoal + community flags do it too), so very few people see that it's a recurring thing.

@sweetandtangy pdf is a lot better. equation formatting, figure layouts, etc. everything is just far better. I really dislike how the publishers only sell epubs nowadays.

@Safdar mods can delete accepted answers, yes, but we rarely have a compelling reason to... I am sure there are some (non-accepted) answers that some of us would like to erase from the internet...

cough chemistry.stackexchange.com/a/461/16683 cough...

Safdar

17:16

@orthocresol What am I supposed to be looking at?

orthocresol

Don't look at it, is my advice.

Safdar

@orthocresol Too late.. Why are there so many large answers for this Q? was this during Beta?

orthocresol

Early days of the site, yeah.

Not that I was around. I think I started in 2015.

Safdar

@orthocresol So all the OP was asking for was an example for superoctet compound?

orthocresol

Well, yes, but many of the answers are muddled.

The best answer is chemistry.stackexchange.com/a/5242/16683.

Safdar

17:22

chemistry.stackexchange.com/revisions/447/3 Was this an allowed edit? @orthocresol

orthocresol

I am afraid that that was me who edited it. And as a mod, I can edit pretty much anything I like here.

Safdar

@orthocresol Anyone above 2000 rep can edit right?

orthocresol

Yes, that is true too.

Safdar

@orthocresol The lack of rep feels very weird now.. Used to depend on that small +2 for the edits.. Everything has a price :|

orthocresol

You can always downvote answers and get back to under 2000. I don't know if that lets you get points from edits again. Anyway, there is a cap on how much rep you can get from edits.

Or put bounties, if you want to be less grumpy.

As for me, I'm very grumpy and if possible I would like to be able to put negative bounties. Pay some of my own rep to put a gigantic "-200" sign saying that I thought this answer was that bad.

Safdar

17:27

@orthocresol you need a good question that people understand.. Right now, everything I have a doubt in can be easily found given some time. May be later then.

@orthocresol An eye for an eye.. Way to break the rep economy.. Push for it in meta..

@orthocresol Also 90% of the time, it is frustrating seeing unreadable posts and not having the ability to correct it then and there.

orthocresol

My only suggestion is to choose where to use your powers judiciously. Editing everything is a great way to burn out quickly. Choose posts that have at least some basic content quality to edit.

Safdar

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/98531/… Hmm.. A conspiracy theory [albeit smashed]..

Mithoron

18:14

@orthocresol Yes it would, and he's not even close to this cap.

@Safdar You still can get +2 for tag wiki edits

Safdar

@Mithoron Hmm.. I have no clue what that is.. wait a min :P

Mithoron

tsk, tsk

And why should one wonder why they are in such a sorry shape ;)

Safdar

@Mithoron How much can you edit those things? most of them have been here long enough for others to edit, aren't there a fixed number of possible edits before any edit becomes obsolete?

Mithoron

Huh?

Safdar

@Mithoron :\ .. that isn't what I meant//

Mithoron

18:24

All of them as many times as you want?

Well, I wouldn't bother with the good ones

Safdar

@Mithoron you know what.. I'll do that sometime in not so near future.. Thanks for pointing it out.. *thumbs_up

orthocresol

I do wonder if anybody really cares about tags.

Let alone tag wikis.

Safdar

@orthocresol Is it a good idea to add a body for the tags?

orthocresol

Yes, but you need to be careful about what you write, as it will affect the scope and usage of the tag.

M.A.R.

@orthocresol Martin has entered the room

Safdar

18:35

@orthocresol Doing upto 50 does give you a badge [which no one cares about]

M.A.R.

In all seriousness, there are no other ways for the newer meat to find out what tagging is supposed to mean and do other than tag wikis.

Safdar

@M.A.R. +1

M.A.R.

Also am I hallucinating or what. There are other people here than me.

My sock notwithstanding.

Mar 24 '17 at 21:02, by M.A.R.

@orthocresol Either you're my sock, or I'm yours. I'm going for the former, because I think I have a fully functional separate brain.

Faded Giant

chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/138736/… Does the title violate the guidelines? — Anindya Prithvi 4 mins ago

M.A.R.

Three years later, that message is so cheesy but simple that I might say it again.

Faded Giant

18:38

What?

M.A.R.

Stops the music

@FadedGiant WTH is Gender Reveal

orthocresol

😂

Faded Giant

edition.cnn.com/2019/07/09/australia/…

Safdar

@FadedGiant Does it violate the guidelines? Are there guidelines for titles?

M.A.R.

Gender reveal party

A gender-reveal party (GRP) is an event or celebration had during pregnancy. The primary goal of this event is the eponymous "reveal" of the fetal sex to the expecting parents, family, and friends. Twentieth century medical advancement in early, reliable prenatal sex discernment has allowed the requisite information that underlies these events to develop.It is distinct from, but sometimes combined with, a baby shower, whose primary activity is gifting expecting parents with important supplies and items for their future infant's care and well-being. A large variety of methods are utilized, often...

Safdar

18:42

Also realising that I've been here for 2 months whereas everyone else has been here here for more than 5 $\small{\text{I feel small.}}$

M.A.R.

OK, not as woke as I imagined.

So next question. What does that have to do with that question?

Faded Giant

Yes, there are guidelines for titles, but what has that to do with anything?

M.A.R.

What does anything have to do with anything

Safdar

@FadedGiant What is wrong then?

M.A.R.

I'm going to have dinner before I throw some sort of exception.

BBL

Faded Giant

18:43

I had to drive for nine hours today, so may I am too tired to see it.

@Safdar That's my question.

Safdar

@FadedGiant you asked the actual person who suggested it?

@FadedGiant Seems pretty specific in my opinion, unless the word gender cannot be used in the title (looks perfectly legit)//

Faded Giant

I wouldn't be surprised if now some SE employee appears and tells us that we are no longer allowed to talk about blue smoke for boys and pink smoke for girls because that would not be respecting other gender identities.

I probably need sleep.

Oh and now I see this is the same user:

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Q: Is 1,2-diphenylbenzene aromatic?

Below is a picture of a compound with $3$ benzene rings, where no two of them are in the same plane. An interactive model of the compound can be found here Question: Is this compound aromatic? I can see $3$ aromatic rings, which are unfortunately non planar and hence sparks a doubt. I do know th...

organic-chemistry aromatic-compounds molecular-structure aromaticity

orthocresol

I ninja deleted that comment just before you posted it...

Faded Giant

3 mins ago, by Faded Giant

I probably need sleep.

orthocresol

:)

M.A.R.

18:53

Get some rest master Loong

BTW can I still call you Loong? It doesn't contain any personally identifiable information or anything?

Faded Giant

That's fine. I don't contain any personally identifiable information.

M.A.R.

@FadedGiant sure just asking, because people sometimes change names so as not to be named by the previous name, but I've called you that for five years and can't stop

Mithoron

@M.A.R. Unless he's actual dragon, then it's not all that informational ;)

M.A.R.

@Mithoron if you're like me that use the same username in multiple places the activities in both places can be linked

Granted, "M.A.R." does have PII but even if it didn't, doxxers would be able to use it to their advantage

1,3-feeds

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Q: Asking questions with eye-catching highlight

Recently I asked a question which included all of the researched data and added with reference. In the clutter, I wished to point out my question so that it's easy to answer. But, it seemed that the point out was unwelcome. I used $$\text{}$$ to point out my question. So, in the heap of my data i...

discussion support formatting

M.A.R.

20:07

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Q: Why was my I'd and question deleted?

I posted this question here few hours ago, but my question and my I'd was blatantly deleted, I also posted one question earlier anonymously, however that question was also deleted. Can the mods provide a reasonable answer to me? Also I request mods to reduce my suspension period, it's already qui...

support deleted-questions

You've been having all the fun without me, huh.

@1,3-feeds Well I finished, I'm not going to respond to anything further.

Hot nitric acid (HNQ)

21:02

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Q: Is benzene a polymer of ethyne?

In one of my classes, my teacher told me that benzene can be formed by cyclic polymerization of ethyne. But I think that benzene isn't a polymer because only 3 ethyne molecules are combining to form benzene whereas, thousands of monomers are combined to form a polymer in a polymerization reaction...

organic-chemistry nomenclature polymers

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