enodia_ic | (no subject)

Reminder that the tagging system for the Research database is for the purposes of information and organisation, not for irrelevant notes and your own entertainment. People called me dramatic for talking about this years ago, but the tagging situation has now become utterly chaotic. New researchers clearly don't even read the guidelines anymore!

In case a wild animal punched you in the head or whatever flimsy excuse you might have for polluting the archives, here are examples of useful and correctly formatted tags:

Rift Radiation
Mind Manipulation Powers
Organometallics
Burlington (Vermont)

Examples of utterly unacceptable tags:

Ass is Grass (This is not the first time someone's spoken to you about this, Cairo.)
promise this gets better by part 3 (All lowercase, not a keyword, not a relevant tag to anyone else.)
I didn't consult an astrochemist for this (Peer review your papers! What are you doing?)
Enemies to Lovers (What does this even mean?)

[DM: Doc Yowell & Crysta Waldinger]

If we needed a device, how much would we have to bribe you to move our idea to the top of your priority list?

[DM: Raine Riley]

I want to complain about work, but I've been keeping details of my work secret from you.

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Propagating endangered species (tl;dr went to far with the selective breeding and they're too powerful now)

Database in which every Riftland plant species is properly identified/photographed/categorized/tagged, etc (if anyone ruins my system, I'll kill them)

[...] How powerful is "too powerful"?

A Riftlands plant database would be incredibly useful. Alas, I'm not much of a botanist, but I do have established relationships with the other research divisions, if ever you want to reach out to another station and get information quickly.

Can't release them. They're gonna out-compete everything else out there. Good exercise, though.

I'm also building a map, so maybe if anyone wants to cross-reference that with the radiation data, we can find growth patterns that may act as an early warning system for hot spots.

Cool, that'd be helpful. I'll let you know, thanks!