V'dibarta Bam

12:53 AM

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Q: Is there any reason to post bug questions on meta.J.SE?

Simple enough. While in the past, SE mods have responded to bug reports on this meta, recently they have not. Is there any reason we should post bug questions here rather than on meta.SO? If not, should those already posted here be migrated and the bug tag removed?

msh210

1:33 AM

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Q: Origin of lighting the chanukiah

Why did people start to light oil lamps on chanukah? How did the holiday come to be represented by lights? If in fact it was that the menorah was lit for eight days with oil, and that was considered the essence of the holiday, then why Is this miracle not mentioned in beyemi mattityahu Is ther...

chanuka

@msh210 See Alex's new comment there.

Isaac Moses

2:50 AM

My close-finger's apparently feeling itchy. I suppose it's partially because of meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/115988/…

HodofHod

5:45 PM

@IsaacMoses. There's a mod-only chat room? Cool! What goes on in there, I wonder? >;)

Shmuel Brill

6:07 PM

visitors/day almost back to 500

Isaac Moses

@HodofHod 50% goofiness, 50% mod collaboration

e.g. "do you want this question migrated to your site?" "Does anyone else have this problem?"

There's also a whole bunch of intra-SO discussion between the many SO mods, but that may be moving to a dedicated room

Isaac Moses

6:29 PM

... there are also ~weeky chat-casts, hosted by SE staff, for open communication between staff and mods, sharing best practices, flow down of network information, etc.

@ShmuelBrill Tell four of your friends! 8^)

Shmuel Brill

@IsaacMoses or use tor :)

Isaac Moses

@ShmuelBrill 8P We had a spammer do that for a couple of days, right before yom tov. That was annoying.

Shmuel Brill

7:04 PM

@IsaacMoses SE never got around to fixing that bug. I put it on meta.se a while ago

It's not so important, but whatever

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Q: Can one person have two votes to delete?

The deleted answer to http://judaism.stackexchange.com/a/12100/732 has four delete votes, but two of them are from the same person. How did that happen? Screenshot

bug voting deleted-answers

Isaac Moses

7:17 PM

@ShmuelBrill Yeah, that's how it goes sometimes. It's probably not high on their priority queue.

Isaac Moses

8:16 PM

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A: Which night of Chanuka should you give out Chanuka Gelt?

This is an unresolved dispute. To be safe you should give out every day of Chanuka, and on the 9th day too just in case. Its best to increase the amount of Gelt given each night (except according to Beis shamai). Its also unclear what form of "gelt" you need to give, so you should use Dollars, S...

^^ To smack down or not to smack down?

Shmuel Brill

@IsaacMoses There seem to be a lot of older answers of that type.

lately there weren't to many "purim answers"

Isaac Moses

@ShmuelBrill I don't think there are a lot.

Shmuel Brill

I'm talking about theMi Yodea era answers

Isaac Moses

@ShmuelBrill We did have some designated purim-torah-in-jest last Purim, in the mi.yodeya days. Before this Purim, we'll discuss on Jewish Life and Learning Meta whether to allow that. Other than that, I don't recall that there were many un-serious answers.

Shmuel Brill

@IsaacMoses though I don't think that it should stay

Isaac Moses

8:22 PM

@ShmuelBrill Which "it"?

Shmuel Brill

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A: Which night of Chanuka should you give out Chanuka Gelt?

This is an unresolved dispute. To be safe you should give out every day of Chanuka, and on the 9th day too just in case. Its best to increase the amount of Gelt given each night (except according to Beis shamai). Its also unclear what form of "gelt" you need to give, so you should use Dollars, S...

Isaac Moses

@ShmuelBrill So, you recommend deletion?

Shmuel Brill

@IsaacMoses do we want more answers like this?

Isaac Moses

@ShmuelBrill Moderator Isaac: No way! Bad Isaac: Yes!

Shmuel Brill

@IsaacMoses on the other hand, he could be saying that the question is meaningless (as it is only a custom).

@IsaacMoses maybe move to comment?

Isaac Moses

8:25 PM

@ShmuelBrill I think he does mean to imply that, but the right way to say that would be to say it.

@ShmuelBrill Good idea.

Shmuel Brill

@IsaacMoses as I understand, that's one of the things we lost in the move from m.y

Isaac Moses

@ShmuelBrill What, Bad Isaac?

@ShmuelBrill Done.

Stack Exchange

9:02 PM

Stack Overflow Blog: Gaming Holiday Promotion: Hat Dash!

Posted by David Fullerton on December 20th, 2011

To celebrate the holidays, Gaming Stack Exchange is throwing a little holiday party — specifically, a Hat Dash:

Between December 16 and January 6, users can unlock hats for their gravatars on gaming.stackexchange.com by asking and answering questions, voting, sharing links, etc. For more info, read the full blog post:

There’s also a related contest around the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic with some cool hats and prizes.

Why Hats?

Well, once you see it in action you realize that those gravatars are basically begging for cute little hats. But video games have a long history of …

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