Ongoing: you can post multiple introductions over time. If you return after a long break, reintroducing yourself is fine.
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Woodhouse, post #2: Ongoing: you can post multiple introductions over time. If you return after a long break, reintroducing yourself is fine. Go to post
post #2 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.
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.
gradient_file, post #4: post #2 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit. 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. Go to post
Having read the exchange above, I think I was wrong earlier in this topic and I want to say so plainly rather than quietly editing.
The correction was fair and I had been repeating something I had not checked carefully enough.
No judgment: people come to this community from all backgrounds and with all motivations. Introductions are for getting to know each other, not for evaluation.
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I disagree with the reply above, and I think the disagreement is substantive rather than terminological.
The distinction being drawn does not survive when you look at the published data for this specific question. I would be glad to be shown wrong on this, because the version I am arguing against is more convenient.
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Ongoing: you can post multiple introductions over time. If you return after a long break, reintroducing yourself is fine.
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