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MoriDoweedhYaa3qob
MoriDoweedhYaa3qob
12:42 AM
@Scimonster teimoni beith ha kannasath. they pronounce like me you just didnt chap good
@menachem did you download hilkhoth ha yerushalmi of saul lieberman from hebrewbooks.org?
 
Isaac Moses
Isaac Moses
1:21 AM
@Scimonster is there more to it than those two pages?
@Scimonster thanks. That's not cool of them.
@Scimonster silly non-reading people.
 
 
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Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
3:13 AM
@IsaacMoses @Scimonster I was wondering that too. The only hit I could find via Google is behind a login prompt, so no help there. :-( I recognize a few of those as having been asked on Mi Yodeya; while "is Purim torah permissible?" might be widely asked, I doubt yours and the one about Jews born in space are.
(And I haven't searched yet, but the werewolf one on the cover rings a bell.)
 
 
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Meta-Man
Meta-Man
7:19 AM
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Q: Is Double AA on-topic?

Shokhet...I've been wondering for a while; is Double AA on-topic? Some believe that he is, clearly; what does the community think about this? Please source your answers :)

discussion meta-purim-torah-in-jest
 
Scimonster
Scimonster
7:45 AM
@MonicaCellio @IsaacMoses I couldn't find more either. I requested more in the email though.
I also clarified that MY is not an "ask the rabbi" site.
@MonicaCellio I can't find any werewolf questions on MY, or anywhere on the interwebs, actually.
> If you would like to properly attribute the questions, i have done you the kindness of tracking them down.

http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/53498/may-one-mix-and-match-to-create-their-own-hebrew-pronunciation
http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/53459/is-becoming-a-talmid-harambam-limited-to-the-rambam
http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/53350/would-halachic-units-be-shrunk-if-a-person-was-honey-i-shrunk-the-kids-style (this one is mine!)
http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/53269/no-other-king-but-god-and-david
 
 
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Nafkamina
Nafkamina
10:13 AM
If that is indeed Mme I also would like attribution if for no other reason than in the spirit of Purim kol haomer davar bshem onto meivi geula leolam
Mine as in "is Purim Torah permissible
 
 
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Scimonster
Scimonster
2:21 PM
I just noticed that @GershonGold became our second Epic user a couple weeks ago, maxing out on reputation 50 times.
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Scimonster
Scimonster
2:46 PM
We currently have 3 featured items, and two events, which means one item gets left off. It currently happens to be the PTIJP that gets dropped. Should we drop featured from one of them?
 
Meta-Man
Meta-Man
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Q: Serious answers to Purim Torah questions

YpnypnWhen a question is marked as being Purim Torah, is it okay to respond with a serious answer, such as here?

discussion purim-torah-policy
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
3:06 PM
@Scimonster @MonicaCellio judaism.stackexchange.com/q/5687/5323
 
Scimonster
Scimonster
3:19 PM
@Shokhet I saw that; it has nothing to with Kiddush Levana.
 
Scimonster
Scimonster
3:40 PM
Apparently someone didn't like the practice of highlighting the PTIJ disclaimer (in accordance with the policy)
 
 
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Shokhet
Shokhet
5:10 PM
@Scimonster ??? ...what does קידוש לבנה have to do with a/t?
@Scimonster I saw that; that was my post he tried to edit :P
 
Double AA
Double AA
@Scimonster And more bizarrely, a user with 2700 rep approved it??
 
Scimonster
Scimonster
5:31 PM
@Shokhet a/t?
In the Tiflus publication, it talked about Kiddush Levana + werewolves.
 
 
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Yishai
Yishai
7:06 PM
Hi Jekowl, and welcome to Mi Yodea. This would make a workable answer (or even a great one) if you could make some play on on a Jewish concept. Perhaps you can do something with Ester 2:7 "of beautiful form and fair ..."
@DoubleAA I was about to add that comment to this post: judaism.stackexchange.com/a/55515/440
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
7:31 PM
@Scimonster anything
@Scimonster Oh; I didn't actually read the publication. ...we may not have been the only site that they took questions from....
 
Isaac Moses
Isaac Moses
We've got 5 HNQs again, all PTIJs
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@IsaacMoses Nice! Is mine (diamonds) one of them?
 
Isaac Moses
Isaac Moses
@Shokhet Yes
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@IsaacMoses :)
Stop bugging the "hot network questions" list!!!! :D — nicael 6 hours ago
Admit it, @nicael: Purim Torah is fun :) — Shokhet 3 hours ago
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
7:46 PM
There are close votes on this question as "off-topic." Please wait until after Purim to close Purim Torah questions. — Shokhet 8 secs ago
 
Isaac Moses
Isaac Moses
@Shokhet I think it's more likely that someone fell for the old "X isn't on topic. Therefore X of Judaims is off-topic." fallacy
 
Double AA
Double AA
8:02 PM
@IsaacMoses I think it's more likely that someone fell into the old "assuming something implies it might be false" fallacy.
 
Scimonster
Scimonster
(‮‮♦ derF - 1+ .oot ,dnomaid a evah I woN .olleH — Fred 12 hours ago
HOW??
 
Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
@Scimonster I looked more closely and it seems my memory is playing tricks on me. I thought we had a question about werewolves and kiddush levana, but I guess it's only the sort of thing I expected somebody to have asked by now. :-)
@Scimonster thanks for compiling and sending that!
 
Scimonster
Scimonster
@MonicaCellio Now i'm trying to think of a connection to write a PTIJ question on it.
 
Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
@IsaacMoses nice! (I'm realizing, belatedly, that this might not have been the best time to ask serious questions; one I only asked last night is already off the front page. :-) )
@Scimonster it's even more bizarre in the mod view. I didn't understand what the link for "tide" meant at the beginning -- mods always get an "edit" link, you see...
 
Scimonster
Scimonster
@MonicaCellio Obviously the link is to make waves.
 
Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
8:15 PM
@Scimonster as if the comment weren't enough to make waves... :-)
 
Scimonster
Scimonster
9:11 PM
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Q: How should a werewolf celebrate Pesach?

CnsersmoitWerewolves are known for their transformation at the full moon. Unfortunately, for Jewish werewolves, this poses problems with holidays such as Pesach, Sukkot, (Shushan Purim, Tu Bishvat, and Tu B'Av), all of which fall on the night of the full moon. How should a werewolf observe Pesach, at the ...

purim-torah-in-jest
 
Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
9:26 PM
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Q: How can we retain users who came for a special event?

Monica CellioMy Stack Exchange community has a special event that runs for about two weeks per year. During this event we get a lot of new questions with clever answers and a lot more visitors. It's, basically, a parody/silliness break in the middle of winter. While some users do stick around after the eve...

user-retention promotion
 
Noach mi Frankfurt
Noach mi Frankfurt
10:16 PM
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Q: Halachic opinions on tefillin peshutim

Noach mi FrankfurtI was discussing the subject of tefillin with my father motzei-Shabbat and particular, the battim (leather boxes that contain the parshiyot, or parchment scrolls). We ended up wondering what the mid-to-late 20th century Acharonim, in particular those with a more "modern-Orthodox" background, pref...

halacha history tefilin acharonim
@MonicaCellio How is this different from the scores of one-hit-wonder questions which occur during the rest of the year? I agree that retention is important, I'm just mentioning that this is a slightly larger problem than just Purim Torah.
 
Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
@NoachmiFrankfurt one-hit wonders revolve around single questions; retention there is hard. I think having, essentially, a "special topic of the week(s)" might give us more opportunities to retain users; after a couple weeks of reading and maybe participating on PT questions they've invested a little more in the site, so I'm wondering how we can help them engage with the rest of the site too.
There are hot questions all year, but the graph looks different around PT -- posts and visits are up.
 
Noach mi Frankfurt
Noach mi Frankfurt
10:38 PM
@MonicaCellio Maybe a slightly looser version of our Parashat HaShavuah tag which appears during the week/s it applies to. Maybe some members who invest a particularly large amount of time (mods et al.) could also write up essays with prompt questions attached?
 
Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
@NoachmiFrankfurt I'm not sure what you mean about writing things up. Could you say more about that?
 
Noach mi Frankfurt
Noach mi Frankfurt
10:57 PM
@MonicaCellio People could create engaging short articles which would be meant to create more questions and to hopefully retain site users. I myself have little idea about how this should work, but I think that this might be worth expanding upon.
 
Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
@NoachmiFrankfurt oh, that kind of "prompt". I thought you meant "timely" and was confused. :-) We've tried some of that, most recently with project 929, but these have been topic challenges, not essays with leading questions. I wonder how one could do what you're suggesting organically. (We do sometimes see questions or answers here prompt other questions, with links, BTW. I just did it last night, in fact.)
Hmm, if any of our PT questions inspire non-PT questions, we should think about asking those (and prominently linking them) before the end of PT season.
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