What to do when an anonymous user suggests an edit on a question that is itself an answer?

Although, on checking, the answer in that suggested edit was already in @DoubleAA's (accepted) answer there.....so on the whole nothing lost.

@Shokhet reject the edit if it changes the post too much or is clearly not the intent of the author. (If it's already covered then we're good; if it hadn't been, I'd've suggested leaving a comment.)

@MonicaCellio I rejected it....this case was clearly not the intent of the author....he had a numbered list of 5 items, and was looking for the sixth....the suggested edit under discussion put in the missing item as number six on the question list......

@MonicaCellio DoubleAA also rejected it, so that's that.

@Shokhet thanks for your help with this.

@MonicaCellio No problem :)

@MonicaCellio And thank you for yours :)

@Shokhet hey, if a brief comment in here helps more members of the community do these kinds of maintenance and site-improvement, I consider that time well-spent. :-)

@MonicaCellio Fair point. :)

@Shokhet so, go forth and review -- even if the counter is annoyingly wrong sometimes. :-) (I think that's because it would be way more expensive to generate an individual number for each user; right now they can generate that number once per site.)

@MonicaCellio which counter are we talking about?

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@Shokhet (psst. You know, the big orange wrong one. :-) )

@MonicaCellio :) ....the one that only shows up at 2K?

What's wrong with the counting?

@Shokhet oh I'm sorry; were you not part of that conversation? Oops. There was some discussion in here earlier today ("yesterday", in SE time) about the counter next to the "review" link in the header and how it's not necessarily accurate. I was referring to that. I was kind of busy at the time so I only skimmed the transcript and didn't note who brought that up.

@Shokhet that's the problem under discussion, yes. In fact, it's not just caching; that number might be wrong for you for extended periods of time. Somebody in here was saying "that's why I don't click on reviews". I understand why they implement it that way, but I'd like to encourage everybody with access to at least some of the queues to click on the reviews link regularly anyway, despite the number being possibly wrong, to see if there's stuff that needs attention.

@MonicaCellio Aha. I don't think we have a problem with under-reviewing -- whenever I go to the review page, if the numbers aren't 0 they're less than 3, usually 1. (in my limited experience with review queues)

@Shokhet excellent! Thanks for checking on the queues.

@MonicaCellio No problem :)

Is there an algorithm to the Community User's poke choices? I feel like some questions keep getting bumped repeatedly.

@YEZ If there is I don't think it's public.

Anyone know where I can find chabad customs relating to mourning? אוצר מנהגי חב"ד seems date bound

@soandos Googling "chabad laws of mourning" yields this: chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/281541/jewish/…

@DoubleAA im looking to find out if there is a known custom for someone in avelut to get haftorah every week (including the 11 months for a parent)

it would be a niche custom at best

@soandos I have not heard of such a custom.

@soandos judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/ask Make sure to include where you've heard of such a thing, motivating your search.

Incidentally, the mourning period for parents traditionally lasts 12 months.

@DoubleAA is it not correct to refer to it as shoshim plus 11 ?

@DoubleAA (honestly unsure)

@IsaacMoses Its just something a chabad rabbi near me does

seems like a very not sourced thing to look for (very hard to disprove if its not "somewhere")

@soandos It may not be technically incorrect, but it is not the convention I am familiar with (hence I found it confusing).

@DoubleAA ah, apologies

@soandos If it's in a book, answers could point to that. If people have seen it in practice, they can report what they've seen and who was doing/advocating it.

I guess. I'll ask, thanks

@IsaacMoses I'm only catching up here in chat now, but that seems to be similar to the scope of technology.

@msh210 Keep reading. What he had in mind is various kinds of innovations / new conditions.

@IsaacMoses Will do.

@IsaacMoses How about a things-that-are-different-than-they-once-were tag?

@YEZ Too many characters, I think.

@IsaacMoses 'twas meant in jest.

[tag:things-that-once-used-to-be-different-but-have-changed-now-for-one-reason-o‌​r-another]

That is too many characters

@Shokhet I'm only catching up now in chat (and maybe there's been more discussion about this), but note that it's a question on a view taken by a gadol hador on things somewhat related to Judaism, even though said things probably wouldn't quite qualify as on-topic. Whether that's on-topic can be discussed, but I think that's the right question.

@YEZ Too specific, I think. It excludes things that have changed for no reason.

@IsaacMoses touche

@IsaacMoses [tag:things-that-once-used-to-be-different-but-have-changed-now-for-one-reason-o‌​r-another-or-even-for-no-reason-at-all]

I once played around in the sandbox to determine the maximum characters for a tag. I think it was 74.

@Scimonster May I ask which (out of curiosity)?

@msh210 which is kinda what @Yishai was saying

does a ping in a link work, @msh210

@YEZ It showed up at chat.stackexchange.com/users/5926/…, so I guess so.

@msh210 That link took me to Captain Kirk. (Or whoever that is, my Star Trek knowledge isn't so good)

@msh210 The Scratch Wiki

@YEZ The equivalent for me of your chat.stackexchange.com/users/105940/…

@Scimonster Reading....

@Scimonster Do you have any association with MIT? (Feel free to not answer if you prefer to retain privacy.)

@Scimonster ... interesting. May be worth using. (Scratch, not the wiki.) I'll look more another time b'li neder. Thanks for the link.

Tzt, y'all.

@msh210 TZT

@msh210 What's TZT?

@Scimonster Very cool.

@IsaacMoses Thanks for the link. No wonder it didn't show up on a Google search.

@Scimonster second link when you search for`tzt judaism` :)

@IsaacMoses Ah, but i naïvely assumed it was general net slang.

@IsaacMoses I tried to get a single-word that would fit my tag idea for things which are different than they used to be. I failed miserably.