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4:49 AM

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Q: targum-translation tag seems to merge to mostly unrelated tags

Why is there only one tag for both "Questions about the various Aramaic translations that accompany much of the Jewish Biblical Canon" and "about translation of specific words in Jewish texts"? These are entirely separate classes of questions that are only very loosely (superficially?) related.

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5:07 AM

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Q: Vote to merge "art" and "pictures" labels

It seems (to me at least) that the "art" and "pictures" labels are redundant. Also, I wonder if even "symbols-symbology" should also be absorbed, as well as terms such as "icon", "iconography", "depictions", etc.

discussion tags merge-tag-request

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3:05 PM

HNQ:

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Q: Does Rashi mean eagles actually fly with their young on their wings?

Everyone knows what Rashi brings down regarding the meaning of "I carried you on eagles wings" (Exodus 19:4, see also Deut. 32:11) that an eagle carries it's young on it's back, but has anyone questioned the truth to this phenomena? from what I understand it's impossible for the young to hold on ...

rashi parashas-yisro birds

I have a feed now, using an idea from @msh210, that I think ought to reliably catch every time we have a post that hits the HNQ. I'm going to wait for one more HNQ post to come up and give it a test before I recommend it for use in here.

If you see a MY post on the HNQ, please visit this chat room and ping me with it.

3:31 PM

@IsaacMoses Is asking us to manually post HNQs the "feed... that... ought to reliably catch every time we have a post that hits the HNQ"? :-)

@msh210 I think that's the QA on the less-manual feed. :-)

@msh210 I said "ought to," not "will." I hope the community rises to the occasion

@IsaacMoses :-)

I linked to the question about round doors and mezuzot on my blog and got this comment speculating about how such could be built with a vertical post.

@mods, do I have a deleted comment on this eagle question's answer, or did I not manage to post the comment?

3:43 PM

@IsaacMoses The answer has had no comments.

@msh210 Thanks. I must have closed the tab or something before finishing my comment.

@IsaacMoses Welcs.

I like that this Q&A has probably exposed hundreds of people who've never heard of R' Slifkin to one of his interesting posts.

4:01 PM

@IsaacMoses That should actually ping us. ("Should" in the deontic not the epistemic sense.)

@msh210 yeah, we should make a feature request about that. It could work like mod pings that are already implemented in TL.

@MonicaCellio It's mentioned as one example here, which is marked status-completed, but only other aspects of that feature request are actually completed.

How is this [status-completed]? — Canadian Luke Dec 5 '13 at 22:58

@CanadianLuke Because, while it's limited to pinging mods, the method exists where it is most needed - in TL. It would have limited use elsewhere as there is no way of creating groups of users in chat. — ChrisF Dec 5 '13 at 23:01

@msh210 oh, I see. Thanks. I guess people here will just have to keep pinging us individually. (If we had this feature I expect that SO and maybe a few others would seek to disable it.)

Seen on MSE (@IsaacMoses, this is a followup to a question you asked years ago):

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Q: Add general disclaimer for sites frequented by licensed professionals (and not just Law)

The gist of this request has been made before, but that post was from 2011 and is effectively status-complete due to the passage of time. And the answers there don't reflect what sites have available to them. The Stack Exchange network has changed significantly since that question was asked, an...

support legal disclaimer

4:16 PM

@MonicaCellio Not that this particular request was ever declined. But you're right about e.g. SO: they'll find it annoying.

@MonicaCellio Thanks very much. Now that they've made code for this, they ought to offer it as an option to every community.

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@IsaacMoses Shog's answer implies that a site that makes a case for it could get it. Looks like a post on our meta would be the next step.

4:35 PM

@Shog9, we have a long-standing request on Mi Yodeya that meets your criteria. There is a great deal of discomfort in the Jewish community with answering questions about Jewish law in public, and I know people whose participation on Mi Yodeya has been limited and/or stunted as a result of this discomfort. We have great deal of literature on our Meta about this, going back to the very beginning of the community. — Isaac Moses 12 secs ago

I mean, do we really need yet another Meta post about this?

@IsaacMoses Thanks.

@IsaacMoses Hopefully that comment will suffice....

@IsaacMoses you're right; I should have looked for the existing meta post first. That said, it's an old post and many of our users have probably never seen it, so it's good to bring it to people's attention too. (Which your comment just did.)

On rereading, I see that that post asks for a lot more (post notices, etc). It's probably worth adding an answer -- which will helpfully bump it -- suggesting something like the Heath/Law disclaimer that's already implemented. Let's get a pile of votes on that narrower scope without throwing in post notices, dismissable banners on every halacha question, etc.

@MonicaCellio Yes. I think a new answer is the way to go. Thanks. ...

@IsaacMoses thank you for your work on this. Prospects for getting a persistent notice seem better than they've ever been since 2.0 started.

@MonicaCellio agreed

@MonicaCellio Done improvements welcome. (This does not inlcude editing in of superfluous URL suffixes.)

4:54 PM

@IsaacMoses thanks, and looks good to me!

Added a link to Q #409, which expresses the discomfort issue well, and may be our first post on the topic.

5:12 PM

@IsaacMoses Do you want me to edit your MSE comment ("going back to the very beginning") to link to 409 like you edited the Meta MY post?

No, scratch that. I'm used to being able to edit comments -- but I'm no mod on MSE. :-)

@msh210 <Lifts finger to produce powerful magic> <Lowers it again, remembering his limitations> :)

@IsaacMoses :-)

@msh210 Thanks. Hopefully, Shog9 will bother to click through to the request I linked to and will read my new answer there.

1 hour later…

6:25 PM

Well, that was quick:

Yeah, ok, done. — Shog9 ♦ 1 min ago

@MonicaCellio correct

@IsaacMoses nice!

Yodeyans, Yod Chet Shevat is hereby designated a minor holiday, for farbrengens and not saying Tachanun.

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6:49 PM

@IsaacMoses It was on Yat Shvat in Israel, and that is more catchy.

@IsaacMoses Years of grumbling, but ישועת ה כהרף עין

@DoubleAA In ChU"L, we can do both 18 and 19

... or we could do it like Purim and Shushan Purim, and people who want double the revelry can cross the border in the evening.

@IsaacMoses It has now been designated a Mi Yodeya community event. I'm expecting a detailed Halachic analysis of the rules and regulations of this holiday to be posted on Mi Yodeya sometime in the first two weeks of Adar II.

@DoubleAA I don't see it in my sidebar.

@IsaacMoses shouldiblamecaching.com

@IsaacMoses Try refreshing. I'm going to label this borderline acceptable use of mod tools.

7:00 PM

@DoubleAA :) Got it.

@DoubleAA but who labels the labelers? Tyranny.

2 hours later…

9:11 PM

@DoubleAA You know what would be ironic? If some people see "Yat Shvat — NO TACHANUN" and, based on that, don't say Tachanun tomorrow morning.

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