Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Where did all these posts come from?
As part of the process for creating the Jewish Life & Learning Stack Exchange, mi.yodeya (an early Stack Exchange 1.0 site) has agreed to provide a jump start to this community by migrating their ...
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Commenting: Constructive vs Hypercritical
I just wanted to ask whilst there exists a code of conduct which points to the requirement to approach people with politeness and the like, I do feel that sometimes there are certain users who in ...
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Meya Alafim - Mi Yodeya? Shalom Yodeya!
Who knows one hundred thousand?
Shalom knows one hundred thousand!
Yeyasher Kochacha to Shalom for achieving 100,000 reputation points! Mazal Tov for being the second Yodeyan to make it there!
Think ...
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Can we link the Hebrew Mi Yodeya in the banner?
Currently the logo and the words mi yodeya in English in the banner serve as a link back to the home page. Clicking on the Hebrew does nothing. Would it be possible and/or advisable to link the Hebrew ...
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LAUNCH IS COMING! How shall we promote it?
Dear Fellow Yodeyans1,
I have exciting news for those of you who haven't been following chat for the past few days. It seems that Judaism.SE is slated to launch out of beta within the next few weeks! ...
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The difference between a bad answer and a non-answer
It seems to me (I may be wrong) that there is some sort of confusion or disagreement (recently) about what makes something "not an answer" as opposed to a bad answer. I think it is important that ...
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Final Accounting for "Days of Awe - Mi Yodeya?"
Here are the final public accounting numbers for the Days of Awe - Mi Yodeya? printing and distribution project.
Accomplished:
We produced over 1400 copies of the booklet and mailed or otherwise ...
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Article about Judaism.SE in the YU Commnetator
Judaism.StackExchange.com and Embracing Online Torah Communities
The web version of the YU Commentator was just published, and it includes a very positive article about Judaism.SE! The article was ...
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The line between History vs Judaism
Inspired by this question, but I am attempting to ask a more largely applicable point.
Questions which are about Jewish History are considered off topic. Now the Jewish History examples given there ...
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2012 Community Moderator Election
The 2012 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Parashat Hashavua' Chat
Our first Parashat Hashavua' (weekly Torah portion) Chat, despite the fact that it was advertised only minimally, turned out to be a lively, interesting discussion. So, why not do it again every week?
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For better understanding between Jews and Christians, some reading material
Although it has been made clear that this site is not interested in Jesus, which is exactly as it should be, some questions display an interest in the historical Jesus, his relationship to Judaism, ...
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"And Revision, and Houses of Prayer, And Tzedaka Distribute the Goodness of Mi Yodeya!" (Please help.)
You may have noticed by now that Mi Yodeya has been working on our fourth publication - ימים נוראים - מי יודע? / Days of Awe - Mi Yodeya?. This is our most ambitious publication project yet, ...
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Irritation with poor questions
If I watch television on Friday night, will I go to hell?
I am mildy surprised at the quick rejection (in the social sense) of this question. The comments convey exasperation and irritation with the ...
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Old Unregistered Users
Why some unregistered users (from the M.Y. 1.0) do not have a user page, while others do?
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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July 2012 Moderator Election: Town Hall Chat
In connection with the moderator elections, we held a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This was be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Siyum Project - Progress and How to Help
Progess on the Siyum Project
I'll try to update this every Sunday, reflecting updates through the most recent Sunday morning Stack Exchange data dump. The goal is to complete all 523 chapters before ...
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Why doesn’t a poster get notified when his post is deleted?
I’ve noticed several questions lately regarding people asking, some more politely than others, why their posts randomly disappeared:
Why did my answer disappear?
How do I contact the moderators here?...
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Policy regarding questions which it’s controversial whether they should be open or closed
While sparked by this question, my question pertains to a much broader swatch of posts.
Let’s say you have a post that gets closed. Five votes, off-topic. Then five people say it was closed unfairly ...
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Where are the non-moderators in Meta?
I've asked a whole bunch of Meta questions. It seems that almost all the answers or comments that I've received are from the moderators:
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Referencer KSA is down
I recently edited a post on the main site, adding links with the Referencer as necessary. However, when I clicked on the link to test it, I found that http://www.yonanewman.org/kizzur/kizzur1.html is ...
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2017 Community Moderator Election
The 2017 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Please provide some hints with non-obvious obsolete (comment) flags
We've been getting a lot of obsolete flags on comments in recent months. Comment clean-up is good, but these tend to be hard to process because we don't know why it's obsolete. This is particularly ...
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Make parsha tags consistent
I know questions about consistency in the tags have already been raised, but I wish to raise the question about one particular set of tags - the parsha tags.
The main problems in this area are:
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MY's stance on questions concerning apocryphal texts?
What's Mi Yodeya's stance on questions concerning Jewish apocryphal texts? There's one that was asked earlier, and I saw that it was flagged by a number of people as "comparative religion", ...
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Are questions about Samaritanism on-topic?
Are questions about Samaritanism, especially questions about Samaritan teachings or practices that differ from Rabbinic Judaism, on-topic?
I was thinking about asking a question about why the ...
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Who can help us complete an English translation of Yoreh Deah?
Did you know there is still no English translation of Yoreh Deah, in particular available online, even today (June 2020)? Are you willing to volunteer a little of your learning time to help complete ...
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Best Answer Contest winner! Third quarter of 5779
Congratulations and Yeyasher Kochacha to הנער הזה, the winner of the Best Answer Contest for the third quarter of 5779!
Here is the original citation, submitted by Isaac Moses:
הנער הזה's answer ...
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"How to Ask Questions in Private Beta" help page?
I just noticed in the help center that there's a page entitled How to Ask Questions in Private Beta, under the "Asking" section.
Obviously, we are looooong out of private beta. Shouldn't ...
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SELICHOT Request for Forgiveness
My apologies for posting this under Questions, I could find no other appropriate place
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I feel that I would like to ask forgiveness from the Moderators, and the many other persons here,especially @...
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Getting dinged for 'not an answer' when I think I'm providing a specific answer
In re: Who is the author of Sefer Shoftim (Judges)?
The OP asked for the views of 'secular scholars'. I believe that my question is an accurate, brief, summary of their views, based on several ...
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Best Answer Contest winners! Second quarter of 5777
Congratulations and Yeyasher Kochachem to the co-winners of the Best Answer Contest for the second quarter of 5777!
Here are the original citations, submitted by msh210, mevaqesh, and Isaac Moses, ...
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Best Answer Contest winners! First quarter of 5777
Congratulations and Yeyasher Kochachem to the co-winners of the Best Answer Contest for the first quarter of 5777!
Here are the original citations, submitted by Monica Cellio and Isaac Moses, ...
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What should we do about "why isn't X the messiah" questions?
We've gotten several questions over the years asking why so-and-so can't be the messiah, most recently https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/79742/why-dont-jews-think-li-hong-is-the-messiah. ...
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Why were we left with boring 404 and error pages?
There were so many great ideas proposed here. How come none got implemented?
My personal favorites are these for error and 404.
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RFP: Mi Yodeya Referencer Community Ad
A while back, with Hashem's help, the community came together to create the Mi Yodeya Referencer. If you're on this Meta reading this question, chances are you've heard of it.
But others may not ...
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Can the Hebrew use/jargon policy be expanded to include full English translations where possible?
I was looking around to see if this was already covered, but I only found questions/answers related to jargon/individual terms/transliterations. I have learned an awful lot on this site so far, but I ...
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I started a bounty, but I don't like the answers!
If I am unsatisfied by the answers on a question with a bounty that is set to expire soon, can I cancel the bounty? What am I supposed to do to get better answers??
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Could a Mi-Yodeya-based high school class curriculum work?
I have thought for a long time that Mi Yodeya is potentially a particularly good place on the Internet for Jewish teens to hang out. Something I've also thought for a while but until now haven't ...
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Parashat Hashavua' "gabfest"?
Would anyone be interested in starting a weekly Parashat Hashavua' podcast in a format similar to the one used in Slate Magazine's various "gabfest" podcasts?1 Please keep reading for more details, ...
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Let's design a paper flyer for promoting Mi Yodeya!
Now that we have a name and a logo, we can make promotional materials featuring our identity to help people spread awareness of Mi Yodeya to new audiences.
Let's design a paper flyer (presumably, but ...
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I updated Isaac Moses's query that shows posts missing the ALT text
I used Isaac Moses' request that everyone update posts missing image descriptions and modified it to show lastest posts first. See his post for more information to understand why these descriptions ...
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Best Answer Contest winners! Second quarter of 5779
Congratulations and Yeyasher Kochachem to Alex and sam, the co-winners of the Best Answer Contest for the second quarter of 5779!
Here are the original citations, submitted by mbloch and DoubleAA, ...
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Very wrong answers
I noticed recently some users who posted a lot of very wrong answers. I'm thinking to myself that, on one side we are not a site of psak, and the damage is only intellectual. Moreover if this user ...
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If you see spam, don't just downvote - flag!
I recently saw a spam post that had a score of -6, but still hadn't been deleted. 3 spam flags knock it off the front page; 6 permanently delete it. (What are the “spam” and “rude or abusive” (...
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Filling in Wikipedia's articles about Talmud
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post to organize Mi Yodeya users, but I figured this would just get merged/closed if this isn't the correct place.
It turns out that Wikipedia's articles ...
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Volunteer needed: Host Parashat Hashavua' Chat
Until recently, I usually served as unofficial host for the Parashat Hashavua' Chat. Unfortunately, it seems that for the foreseeable future, I won't be able to attend. Would you be willing to take ...
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Limit to amount of questions asked daily
Lately, it seems that some users ask countless questions in succession. Is this something that is encouraged? I believe that if there was a question limit ,users would be forced to think over their ...
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