TL;DR: The Problem
This keeps happening in chat:
Surprise at flags on vulgar messages. Language that would invariably get your comments deleted on the main site occasionally gets flagged and deleted in chat. Confusion reigns.
Controversial topics leading to bickering and name-calling. Folks b...
I understand that mod terms are for life. However, I find it odd that Mi.Yodeya has had the second least recent elections of any site on StackExchange. We have not held moderator elections since 2012.
The majority of StackExchange sites have held moderator elections as recently as 2015, with onl...
@IsaacMoses Maybe the user meant to ask for the chapter headings. That's the only interpretation I can think of for that question that makes it a somewhat reasonable question. cc @DoubleAA
Section 297 of Yoreh De'ah (in Shulchan Aruch) is unusual in that there are two of them, one covering the laws of planting mixtures (kilayim) of plants other than grapevines, the other about the laws of crossbreeding animals.
@msh210 I wonder if there are any better theories out there, perhaps from the academic community. Maybe the end got chopped off of some important manuscript?
The chapters in Shulchan Aruch generally follows those in Tur, with a couple of exceptions here and there. One of those exceptions is that SA adds a final chapter, 427, to Choshen Mishpat discuss the rules of maake (a required railing around a high walking surface). Indeed, Tur doesn't discuss ma...
@msh210 Yeyasher kochacha. Better-written than mine would have been. I was going to incorporate the tzarich iyunhere explicitly in the Q. Would you consider doing that?
@DoubleAA Maybe, to post a comment you should pass through a menu where you pick the purpose for your comment from a menu: 1) Constructive criticism or suggested improvement for this post 2) Link to related material 3) (only presented on question posts) Lead for possible answers
It's possible that if there were such a gate, we (SE in general) would feel forced to add some categories to the list (e.g. welcoming new users)
Any comment that doesn't fit the chosen category could be summarily deleted.
There'd have to be some provision for responding constructively to constructive-criticism comments that wouldn't also be the backdoor for open-ended discussion
... Or perhaps include "Other (comment will auto-delete after 24 hours)"
@IsaacMoses interesting idea! I know that Jon Ericson has spent some time thinking about comments (he favors, or at least used to favor, auto-deleting after some period of time). It'd be interesting to hear his take on this.
And yes, there needs to be some flexibility for things like welcome messages and asking for clarification of clarification requests. Maybe there could be a low per-post, per-user limit on "other" comments, to keep that from enabling long discussions.
And make it easier for anybody involved to take it to chat.
When you try to post your Nth "other" comment, you get a message saying you should edit clarifications into the post instead of answering in comments, or something like that. (Needs to be wordsmithed.)
Additional idea, to help reduce the longevity of obsolete comments: if you post a Constructive Criticism comment, you get a mailbox notification each time the post is edited, asking if your comment is still relevant: 1) Yes. This post could still be improved by addressing my comment. 2) No. Delete it. If you post an Answer-Lead comment, you get that sort of message, M.M., each time an answer is posted. If you post a Related Link comment, it either gets auto-deleted if that link gets edited ...
... into the post, or you get a keep/delete notification for both edits and answers
@IsaacMoses That should significantly cut down the number of low-value comments. (Because people won't want so many notifications.) Unfortunately, it will probably also significantly cut down the number of high-value comments.
TL;DR: The Problem
This keeps happening in chat:
Surprise at flags on vulgar messages. Language that would invariably get your comments deleted on the main site occasionally gets flagged and deleted in chat. Confusion reigns.
Controversial topics leading to bickering and name-calling. Folks b...
Section 297 of Yoreh De'ah (in Shulchan Aruch) is unusual in that there are two of them, one covering the laws of planting mixtures (kilayim) of plants other than grapevines, the other about the laws of crossbreeding animals.
