This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1.
If you are arriving from somewhere louder, the pace here will feel slow. A topic can sit for two days and then get a reply that is worth the wait. That is the design working.
A qualification I should have led with rather than closed on.
New, no scientific background at all, and slightly intimidated by the first three topics I opened. Is there a sensible on-ramp for someone who is here for practical reasons rather than technical ones?
Glad to see another member from outside the usual regions. The access and regional categories are thin for anywhere that is not the UK, EU or North America, and a dated first-hand account is worth more than any summary.
I would treat the number as indicative rather than as a measurement.
Clinician voices are genuinely welcome and are asked to be explicit about the line. Several members here say plainly in every post that they are describing general information and not advising anybody, and nobody finds that tedious.
I have separated what I observed from what I concluded, which does not always happen.
Welcome: the response to introductions is usually welcome. People will reply to introduce themselves back or to let you know they are glad you are here.
Following up: if you introduce yourself and someone asks a follow-up question, you can reply here or in a direct message depending on what feels right.
I am aware this is the third time this month I have made this point.
That is clearer than the version I had in my head. Thank you.
Six months of lurking, finally posting. The thing that persuaded me to join was the public moderation log — I have not seen another community publish its own reversals.
A weak preference rather than a position.
Hello and welcome. One practical suggestion: watch two subcategories rather than the whole site. The firehose is real and it puts people off in the first fortnight.
Noting that I have skin in this question and have tried to discount for it.
Privacy: share only what you are comfortable making permanent and public. An introduction is archived and searchable; do not include information you will later regret posting.
No spam: introductions are not a place to advertise commercial products or services. That is a rules violation.
The literature is thinner on this than the confidence in the thread implies.
Community culture: introductions give you a sense of who is here. Reading a few introduces you to the people and the tone of the community.
Adding the caveat now so it does not have to be extracted later.
Nice to meet you. Say what you are interested in rather than what you do, if you would rather — plenty of people here are anonymous about their background and it costs them nothing.
If you are arriving from somewhere louder, the pace here will feel slow. A topic can sit for two days and then get a reply that is worth the wait. That is the design working.
This settles it for me, at least until somebody posts a reason it should not.
New, no scientific background at all, and slightly intimidated by the first three topics I opened. Is there a sensible on-ramp for someone who is here for practical reasons rather than technical ones?
Not the whole picture, but the part of it I can speak to.
There is: the practice category, and the calculators, both written for exactly that. Nothing there assumes chemistry, and the maintained documents show their working so you can check them by hand.
That matches what I was told, which is not the same as knowing it.
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