@ElishaandhisBrethren ....okay, that's actually an interesting question.

@El'endiaStarman What if the food is going to be prayed over to a pagan god?

I'm not sure how to tag questions like this: christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/35673/…

Any suggestions?

@curiousdannii just tagged it "textual-discrepancies numbers curses nehemiah"

Why the numbers tag?

Nevermind. I see why. The book. lol

@fredsbendtheGrinch Did you check my second edit? The relevant passage in Numbers mentions different nations

yep.

Is this really a "seeming contradictions between passages of the Bible" as the textual-discrepancies tag excerpt says?

@curiousdannii So you typically tag any relevant books every time?

I think so. Is easy to see how Neh 13 would be understood as saying that the Ammonites hired Balaam while Numbers says the Midianites. As contradictions go it's not an exciting one, but it's there.

Okay. I'm only vaguely familiar with the story.

Barely remember it.

@fredsbendtheGrinch My final edit has the full quotes

I curses tag obviously because it is about just that.

Maybe I'm just tired.

This seems obvious now.

@fredsbendtheGrinch Unless there are five more significant tags I usually do tag the referenced books. Hopefully that will help find good related questions for the sidebar and in the list of possible duplicates

@fredsbendtheGrinch Happens to us all!

@curiousdannii So you will nix the book tags if there is something more relevant?

@fredsbendtheGrinch If a question quotes from a whole bunch of books there usually isn't space to tag them all. Sometimes if it's comparing the gospels I'll just use the gospels tag instead of matthew mark etc. Or if there's one major quote and a few extra ones to support it I'd just tag the major one.

I'm not saying this is the best way to tag them! But it makes sense to me.

Makes sense to me.

Now there's one thing that doesn't make sense to me. Why aren't you wearing a hat!?

I just changed mine so you should totally F5 and check it out.

I'm still skeptical as to the existence of these so called hats

Here's a fun question I don't know what to do with

@fredsbendtheGrinch sometimes questions would actually be improved if their Bible quotes were removed, like this one: christianity.stackexchange.com/q/35628/6071

I'd normally tag that as psalm (the tag is annoyingly psalm rather than psalms) and proverbs, but I think the quotes actually distract from the main question.

Yeah, a bit. My edit was just a small clarification at the bottom of the post + tags.

I'm hoping the OP will return

gtg

reconsider the hats. It's not completely ridiculous.

It's fun.

This user is in the suggested edit review queue and they only have 400 rep. Is this a bug? When is that privilege granted?

If this is not a bug, then this bothers me.

For two reasons, 400 rep is not enough to grant edit reviews and this user in particular is having trouble understanding this site.

@curiousdannii The Look real enough to me.

@fredsbendtheGrinch you appear in that queue when you approve/reject suggested edits to your own posts iirc - I believe this is the most likely explanation rather than it being a bug.

as I thought: christianity.stackexchange.com/users/15134/… - it's for his/her question

@fredsbendtheGrinch I'm not getting the hang of resizing, angling them etc. - what am I missing?

@fredsbendtheGrinch They approved an edit on their own question

Which they then immediately manually reverted :/

@fredsbendtheGrinch Oh that's very cool. Unfortunately I haven't won that one yet

If I get a hat I like I'll wear it!

@curiousdannii You can cheat and just change your avatar to that pic ;)

@bruisedreed There's a checkbox that says show controls under the pic. Have you seen that?

That makes sense [about the suggested edit queue].

@bruisedreed Tick the "show controls" checkbox. The control to the right is for moving them around. The one above is the tricky one: it's for both angle and size. Drag it left and right to change the angle, and away from and toward your avatar to change the size.

Any opinions on my edit? christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/35687/…

I created the fun tag on meta:

Anybody have thoughts on that?

Should we make a meta post about its usage? I'm thinking that one or two fun tagged questions per week should be max.

Let's see if I can come up with a cliche:

if it's an occasional thing, I don't have an issue, its just meta

The online community that laughs together, stays together.

How often is "occasional"?

@fredsbendtheGrinch less than monthly

(probably less frequent than quarterly even)

@waxeagle So no new fun tagged questions until like late Jan or Feb is what you would advocate?

@fredsbendtheGrinch I think they should be created when there is something to merit their creation, and metered if they become a burden

@waxeagle What would merit their creation? I don't understand that. The tag, as I've used it anyway, is by definition stuff that is not necessary and is just for fun.

@fredsbendtheGrinch Your post is an example. It's basically a fun ad for winterbash

and yeah it's probably a tag that gets added after a post is posted

@waxeagle Okay. So the advent bounties from last year would be an example too, right?

yes

@waxeagle ???

@fredsbendtheGrinch like as an edit

I understand that part. I don't understand what you mean by saying the tag would be added later. By whom? Why not at creation?

@fredsbendtheGrinch my thought would be that it would require some kind of...tacit...approval

which probably is just us not deleting it outright, so...carry on

Okay.