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12:05 AM

Does anyone know if there were ever tags fro avraham, yitzchak, and yaakov, or did we always use "avot"?

@ShmuelBrin @DoubleAA, since you're here ^^^

@HodofHod I don't remember separate ones, but I've only been around a few months

@DoubleAA Longer than me, at least

@HodofHod In creation date. I created my account last august, but if you look at my activity, you'll see it jumps really quickly to the end of november.

@DoubleAA ahh, true

12:33 AM

@HodofHod I don't remember. Actually, I saw this website back in the Mi.Yodeya days.

When we will be Mi. Yodeya again, how will we refer to those times (MiYoyea 1.0)?

(Chadesh Yameinu Kekedem)

@ShmuelBrin gilgul rishon

@HodofHod Olam Hatohu

@ShmuelBrin So what does that make judasim.SE? shvira?

@HodofHod and Isaac Moses is called that way because he was drawn from that world :)

Like it says in Torah Ohr.

It's a bit after Purim.

@ShmuelBrin It's brought in sichos too, I think. At least that's where I know it from

A: Why the vast difference of opinion about the age of the Universe?

1:03 AM

@HodofHod and letters (re: the age of the universe and multiple shmittos)

Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan has shown that the tradition of the age of the world is not a simple subject. Let's stick to Jewish sources only and ignore any other source. We have two dating systems. One is based on the Seder Halam, that which gives us the current calendar year. According to this view, ...

@HodofHod ping

Isaac Moses

1:36 AM

@DoubleAA I did, when I needed to come up with a topic-descriptive name for the Area51 proposal. It's meant to indicate, roughly, the scope I had in mind. Neither R' Lichtenstein no I are the first to use the phrase.

@ShmuelBrin I'd suggest referring to 1.0, Beta, and Final

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3:00 AM

@HodofHod We never had any of the individual ones for any substantial length of time. (That is, maybe a question had one, but it got switched over.)

@msh210 Ah, I was going to do a historical figure > avot > etc.. hierarchy, but I guess there are no avos tags

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5:14 AM

Does our user list not include people who were only active in M.Y?

SimchasTorah, Dont Let Your Schooling Effect your Education -Albert Einstein

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should be on that list, for example.

Blog - Stack Exchange: More Notes on Contest Format

@ShmuelBrin But he never registered. Our user list does not include unregistered users

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jake

6:34 AM

@HodofHod The judaism.SE period is ימי הביניים.

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Stack Exchange

4:11 PM

Lauren Gundrum on April 20, 2012

A few months ago, I outlined a contest formula called “Hot Topics,” which has become a staple in CHAOS’s site-promotion efforts. For those who missed that post, Hot Topics initially worked like this:

Pick a topic of the week, and enter everyone who asks a question related to that topic into a random drawing to win a prize. The number of entries a person gets is equal to the number of questions they ask about the topic of the week.

We now have a few variations on this contest format.

Variations on the Hot Topic Format …

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5:57 PM

التوراة القانون مع مجموع الأرا, Bateling Zman

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halacha hashkafah-philosophy rabbis rashi halachah-theory history jewish-books

@Vram That is odd!

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@DoubleAA I have been other users in the past (chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/468?m=3785388#3785388), but I am neither of the other users with Arabic names.

6:45 PM

What does "mochin rechavim" mean, anyway? "Wide waddings"? "Chastising the wide"?

Greetings from NYC

@Jin Hiya!

@msh210 hello.

2 days ago, by msh210

@Jin I was away from chat during the whole discussion about the logo and design but.. wow, I like it a lot. Thanks so much for keeping in touch with the community for input, and for all the hard work. Personally, I think the logo you've showed us is good as is, and doesn't need the letters to be leaves (in fact, they may make it too complicated) (but I seem to be outvoted on that score, at least among chatters here).

@msh210 wide brains?

6:52 PM

2 days ago, by msh210

@Jin Also, a minor point, but I'm not sure why the top of the question mark needs to spiral so much. But overall -- very very nice.

@ShmuelBrin Ah, yeah, could be. Or marrow.

@msh210 I saw. I can certainly make it less "spirally"

@msh210 Mochin Rechavim;

The term mochin rechavim, lit. “broad intellect,” defies translation. It does not refer to Reb Moshe’s broad spectrum of knowledge or to “broadmindedness”; rather, it describes the nature (intense, powerful), absorptive ability (capacious), and breadth (wide-ranging) of his intellectuality – his faculty of intelligence.

when I tried to use a standard "?" shape, it looked too much like a hook, not very organic. that's why I made it more spiral like, also seemed more artistic.

@DoubleAA from: mochinrechavim.wordpress.com/about

@Jin Ah, I see. Well, whatever you think best.

6:54 PM

@msh210 I will make it less spiral though, I think at a smaller size, the version I had was not too legible.

@DoubleAA Ah, thanks. I wonder whether he made up the term or what. And who R' Moshe is. (Feinstein? Seems unlikely.)

@Jin, I don't know how to do the repost-chat thing, but I posted a couple comments to you yesterday (19:09). Beautiful work!

@Jin I see. Yeah, makes sense.

@msh210 I guess R' Moshe is R' Moshe Feinstein

@MonicaCellio ty Monica. I'll try to tweak the logo to include Hebrew letters as leaves.

6:56 PM

20 hours ago, by Monica Cellio

@Jin, I'm just now catching up on several days' worth of chat. That's beautiful! And I second (third? fourth?) the idea that when we get to site swag, a print of that should be included. UX.SE did nice moleskin blank books with their logo for top-user swag; I wouldn't expect a nice color print to cost more than that to produce.

20 hours ago, by Monica Cellio

On the wine-stains thing... I was suggesting that in the context of a haggadah-themed site design; if you made the page look like a page from a haggadah, it wouldn't really be complete without that addition. But you're not doing a haggadah theme (and that's totally fine!), so I wouldn't do the wine thing. It doesn't fit with other books, just that one. You can get nice, subtle color variation through the natural variations in parchment.

Thanks @msh210!

@MonicaCellio Sure. Right-click the down-arrow to the left of a post and click "copy the URL of this link"; paste that URL as the entirety of a chat post here, and you'll get the above.

@msh210, oh cool -- I didn't know individual URLs worked; I was looking for a "link" or "reshare" or something off the left-click.

@MonicaCellio Yes you do: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3987885#3987885

@MonicaCellio E.g. chat.stackexchange.com/messages/4302200/history

7:00 PM

@DoubleAA, I failed to generalize -- I knew I could paste in links to posts, Wikipedia, and a few others and nice things would happen, but didn't make the comment connection.

(And how did you find that link so quickly?)

التوراة القانون مع مجموع الأرا

@MonicaCellio chat.stackexchange.com/…

@هه @msh210 Sometimes I look at chat without logging in.

التوراة القانون مع مجموع الأرا

@التوراةالقانونمعمجموعالأرا Pardon?

I didn't realize @هه would get offended by my name :( Unfortunately, I can't change it back). So if anyone could, it would be appreciated.

@التوراةالقانونمعمجموعالأرا Care to inform us what it means?

7:03 PM

@DoubleAA Cool, thanks! I've got to get more acquainted with search. :-)

@DoubleAA Am Haaretz Gamur Mideoraisa.

I have to leave in a few minutes for a shabbaton, but when I saw Jin was here I wanted to pop in and say hi & thanks. Great work on he site, and I'm thrilled to hear we have a launch target.

I think that's who it used to be

@ShmuelBrin That's definitely who it used to be. Is that also the literal translation of the Arabic?

@DoubleAA idk

7:06 PM

@التوراةالقانونمعمجموعالأرا Done (on JLL. Dunno how to do it here: I think it follows suit automatically).