aga
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Odd one out
The random multi-account personality is getting a bit boring, and far too easy to spot, generally on the First post.
As a guide, here is an approximation of the general Modus Operandi (M.O. for short) :-
Hi. (select any below)
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I'm -97 years old and am just starting in chemistry and was wondring how you go about the selection of quaternary ammonium bromides for use in
zinc/bromine cells.
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Quick question: if you got a Fluorine gas leak in your bedroom, should you warn the neighbours ?
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Googling brought up a sketch showing that i can make an atom bomb out of toothpaste and five pencils.
Where do you get chemistry pencils ?
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I already have 487 kilos of plutonium in my sock-drawer and was wondering if i could convert half of it into lead to protect myself.
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My health is really bad, asthma, cancer, slight case of post-death-syndrome, ingrowing toenails etc, but i am worried that if i mix water and vinegar
i might die.
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I was wondering if RDX plus an FXO would make an exploding telephone ?
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I have been lurking in this excellent Chemistry forum for many years and Now feel i should post my first ever message :-
My cat has 4 paws. Each one has 4. Yes, it is true.
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I have phenoxilic carboxycyanate, metasilicylpseudo thingumyate and some anti-matter off ebay.
Can i make time-travel bleach for my t-shirts out of these ?
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I urge the originator of the pointless Other personalities/accounts to speak to us as Yourself, which is likely a FAR more interesting personality
than the pointless invented ones.
If it's the same person as the lg2 character, what passed is past : personally i hold no grudge nor desire to reclaim any $, at all.
(i liked the lg2 character up to the point where the imagination went way over the top)
It would be great to see less pointless shitty posts on SM and more actual Chemistry, or even attempts at doing some.
[Edited on 12-6-2016 by aga]
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j_sum1
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Yeah, I don't know how many sock puppets we are seeing at the moment. I suspect there are a few. But I doubt that they an be as positively
identified as you claim.
I don't think there is much to be done.
One good tactic is, don't feed the trolls and report anything suspicious.
OTOH, your characterisation is hilarious.
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aga
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Rosco tends not to crazy without blogfast retorting, so it is a bit of a mystery why Rosco's last post was trashed so fast, i.e. before bloggers got a
chance to reply.
Tennis is much more fun to watch when there are two players 
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blogfast25
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Rosco tends not to crazy without blogfast retorting, so it is a bit of a mystery why Rosco's last post was trashed so fast, i.e. before bloggers got a
chance to reply.
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I had in fact vowed not to respond to R., so no harm done as far as I'm concerned.
This endless regurgitating of kvetching about a old policy being finally enforced has to stop, because boooooooooring!
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aga
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The main thing that has to stop is the endless Words.
Hopefully the forum will return to a state where people who Do some actual amateur Chemistry post their experiments, findings, maybe discuss the
results, possibly with photographs.
Currently the doing-to-words ratio is desperately low, and has been for a while.
In an high-actual-Chemistry environment, a few % of random bolitics is acceptable.
When the bolitics became more talked about than actual Chemistry, i can see how that became an annoyance to some.
[Edited on 13-6-2016 by aga]
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macckone
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I would say the number of sockpuppets is much lower than aga seems to think.
Kewls and other idiots are far more common than aga seems to think.
Agas list certainly describes good ways to identify kewls and idiots but
that doesn't make them sockpuppets. Sometimes it is even possible to
domesticate idiots. A little education can go a long way
Now everyone back to the scheduled chemistry.
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aga
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It would be very nice to see SM with some actual Chemistry again.
Here's Hoping.
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