That's pretty rare, yeah. I think I've actually seen double-digit comment votes here occasionally, but am too lazy to find an SEDE query (which likely exists).
@IsaacMoses I never imagined that would be my top scoring comment.
@IsaacMoses Including links to the comments would be much more useful. Now I'm wondering where I have a 10 voted comment... <goes to check all his comments>
@IsaacMoses the Skeptics one goes into their "site distinctives" more. For example, the help-center on-/off-topic lists can give one-liners (e.g. "no psak questions") and even link, but the meta post would have a paragraph or so explaining why we can't do that and providing advice for how to reformulate the question. I suspect the main value of the Skeptics approach is that it's all in one place -- no need to follow additional links.
So what are our key distinctives? Off the top of my head: questions about psak (and how to fix them); we're not just a halacha site; non-Jews are welcome and it's ok if your question is motivated by something you learned in (e.g.) church but don't present that as foundation axioms here; what else?
@MonicaCellio Distinctions from other SE sites, from other online Jews/Judaism forums, or both? If it's to be a one-stop introduction, both would make sense, right? So then we'd need to import the standard SE dogma about "we're not a forum," etc.
@MonicaCellio Some topics that border Judaism (Jews, Hebrew, Israel) don't make a question on-topic but also don't make a question off-topic.
... The very tricky part is falling on the right point in the comprehensive vs. concise spectrum. Tour falls on a point closer to the concise end, while Help falls on a point closer to the comprehensive end (but not comprehensive from our POV). It sounds like what we want is something like Tour, but with our special stuff added in.
... Tour is well-designed to keep the newbie reading long enough to get all the information. Anything longer and/or less well-designed is in danger of not getting read.
I think clear sections (subheadings) of a paragraph or (if necessary) two, but no longer, are important in the Skeptics post. That's something people can skim, and they can drill down into the part that's immediately relevant ("what do you mean my answer got deleted for not having references? what's that about?").
Tour is very concise and it's mainly about the SE engine. There are very few parts of that that a site can customize, and that's probably a good thing.
It may depend on the target audience, but perhaps something about the importance of citing sources (whatever they may be, eg. my grandfather told me) as well as perhaps noting something about the non-Orthodox nature of the site.
