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1:32 AM

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A: What else do we need to do to go public?

Between now and next week, the Community Manager team will be evaluating the progress of Mythology in the private beta. With 189 questions at the time of writing, we have plenty of content to consider. Early in the week, we should come back to you with one of three possible outcomes: Failed i...

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I saw "failed in private beta" as an option, and my heart stopped. Then I saw "unlikely" and it started again.

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@HDE226868 Yeah, read the blog he links there. Our activity is nothing like the AI activity.

@durron597 Wow. 9 days in and we have over double that and a much better userbase, I'm guessing.

@HDE226868 Double that AND the questions are good. And a lot of us are editing and making sure everything is actually expert level, well cited and so forth.

Oh, right, I realized that I'm inadvertently getting close-ish to Strunk and White thanks to all the tag wiki excerpt edits. Thanks to Semaphore and a bunch of others, the excerpts are pretty good.

1:42 AM

@HDE226868 I haven't been editing because the posts are really, really good mostly

I've noticed the same thing.

2 hours later…

3:45 AM

Wow, making tag synonyms is a gigantic pain if you don't have a diamond.

@Semaphore @Yannis I'd ask you to upvote this synonym but as we need four it probably doesn't matter.

it absolutely is

i proposed colonisation as a synonym for colonization in history.se; despite a meta post its still at 1 vote after like a year......

@Semaphore haha :-/

2 hours later…

6:10 AM

@durron597 According to those rules, only one user of the whole site can even vote in the first place, assuming Semaphore has the required rep in the tag. Yannis needs a bit more rep before he can vote.

@HDE226868 Man, me too. It especially stood out because it was a link, and I was thinking it was like a consolation kind of post.

@El'endiaStarman I was just looking at those tags and wondering about that.

@El'endiaStarman She's saying weird things to me too:

You're dancing a line between dogma and mythos. One reason I thing what you're saying makes little sense. The eucharistic symbolism does not include "the creatures ... becoming God". Perhaps take a look at some of these answers. If anything, the eucharistic celebration is about giving/receiving life, not taking/losing it. — fredsbend 1 hour ago

@Semaphore As an American, I've always despised an 's' where a 'z' belongs. But I'm not usually bothered by a 'z' where an 's' belongz.

as a non american i despite z in general :3

Yes, it should properly be sebra, sumba, and soo. lol

@Yannis I get that SO is SE's darling, but I really think they need to not cookie cutter everything so much for all of their sites. It's kind of why I hate using MSE. Even after the switch from MSO, it's still very SO-centric.

@Semaphore What's that emoticon suppose to be anyway?

I guess a cat face? You into anime? I'm afraid it doesn't immediately make me think "cat face". Much like <3 doesn't immediately make me think heart.

I guess I should look more closely at profile pictures ... hehe.

6:35 AM

yes, its a cat face

cultural thing i guess

i'm used to seeing cat faces drawn like a horizontal 3

2 hours later…

8:37 AM

user image

This is proving to be quite a race.

9:03 AM

lol

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11:11 AM

> ~1k people reached

On a site limited to 200 users.

Hey all, I've reached each and everyone of you 5 times on average! Yay!

(what an absolutely pointless metric...)

2 hours later…

1:02 PM

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Q: Was there a significant transformation of the Heracles mythos from Homeric times to classical times?

Homer, in book 5 of the Iliad, tells us that during his expedition against Neleus of Pylos (Poseidon's son), Heracles won battles against Poseidon and Apollo, and managed to wound Hera and Hades with his arrows. He also killed Neleus and eleven of his twelve sons, including Periclymenus (an Arg...

^ nice, well-researched question

Who is allowed to change the text of the help pages, such as mythology.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic ?

That page and similar help pages seem to be lacking basic information specific to the Mythology SE site, like what is on-topic and off-topic.

@b_jonas Thanks.

Some of the help articles are editable by moderators. The "What topics can I ask about here?" is one of them, so we will be able to change it once moderators have been appointed.

Moderators. Ok, thanks.

1:19 PM

@Yannis I agree, that Heracles question is one of the best questions in awhile

How are we doing today guys? I see some great new questions.

@YoungGuilo Yeah they're all from @Yannis, obviously.

2 hours later…

3:17 PM

Are ugaritic and canaanite the same religion?

3:38 PM

I'm probably missing something, but I don't see where your source talks about Hades being worshipped in Pylos. Is that a direct quote? — Yannis 4 mins ago

Am I missing something obvious here? It's the end of a very hectic work week, and I'm exhausted, I don't trust my eyes.

@Yannis I'm just as confused as you are.

Huh. That's uncharacteristic of Chad. His answers (elsewhere on SE) are usually spotless.

maicar.com/GML/Nestor.html

It seems to be from there.

Ah, he probably copy pasted the wrong link then.

On that same site, though, it doesn't mention Hades in the Pylos entry.

3:42 PM

^^

That site doesn't seem super reputable either.

Wow.

It happens.

He posted a comment "going away and stop being a dbag" but then deleted it.

Well, if it didn't exist on the site long enough for someone to flag it, it didn't happen /modspeak

@durron597 I wouldn't bother responding to his follow up comment.

@Yannis I flagged it.

I'm also writing my own answer as I've found a much better source.

3:52 PM

Or, if you absolutely must respond, then do it in style: Post a question about whether the Pylians actually worshipped Hades ;)

An answer saying the same, but quoting a better source, would also work.

Hello, any thoughts on: mythology.stackexchange.com/questions/599/…

I'm inclined to vote to close. Doesn't look like the the Vaimānika Shāstra is really on topic to me.

iirc, the main difference between the four is the shape :P

@Yannis Done.

We're supposed to have more than 1 answer per question anyways, though I've been trying to get our answer rate above 90% recently

El'endia Starman

4:14 PM

> The...Bronze Age city Ugarit [was] divided into quarters. In the north-east quarter of the walled enclosure, the remains of three significant religious buildings were discovered, including two temples (of the gods Baal Hadad and Dagon) and a building referred to as the library or the high priest's house. Within these structures...numerous invaluable mythological texts were found. These texts have provided the basis for understanding of the Canaanite mythological world and religion.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugarit#Ugaritic_religion

So, I would say that Ugaritic : Canaanite :: Jewish : Christian.

Plus, "Baal" and "Dagon" both appear in the Old Testament, both times as Canaanite/foreign gods.

my research on the subject implies that canaanite begat judaism

that's why El Elyon is so similar to the judeo christian g-d

My uncertainty on the vimana question is less regarding the broadness of the question, more about whether the Vaimānika Shāstra is an accepted primary source of Hindu mythology. All I have to go on at this point, though, is the depth of understanding granted by Wikipedia.

@femtoRgon It doesn't have to be Hindu mythology to be a valid mythological source from the region

oh, I misread the wikipedia it. Early 20th century sanskrit? meh.

I think the question "is the text a valid mythological text" would be a good question

anyway, err on the side of more content IMO. we can close stuff like this later if turns out to be a problem.

Makes sense to me. Thanks.

Wow this topic is suuuuper fascinating

4:28 PM

@durron597 Vaimānika Shāstra?

The canaanite stuff

Names of God in Judaism

The name of God in Judaism used most often in the Hebrew Bible is יהוה (YHWH), also known as the Tetragrammaton. Elohim (God, singular and plural form, depending on the context), and Adonai (master), are regarded by rabbinic Judaism not as names, but as epithets or titles reflecting different aspects of God. Elohim is the aspect of justice, and Adonai the aspect of mercy. == The Tetragrammaton (YHWH) == The name of God in Judaism used most often in the Hebrew Bible is the four-letter name יהוה (YHWH), also known as the Tetragrammaton (Greek for "four letters"). The Tetragrammaton appears 6,828...

scroll down to #El

ah

interesting

5:13 PM

woohoo spite downvote

El'endia Starman

I'm thinking about the tags on this question:

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Q: Who commands the Heavenly Host in combat?

In Judeo-Christian traditions, Heaven is defended by an army of good angels known as the Heavenly Host. Christian mythology from the Book of Revelation that the Heavenly Host will take part in the War in Heaven and defeat the army of Satan. Does God Himself command the Heavenly Host in combat? O...

judeo-christian angels

The core is about explicitly Christian mythology as Jews do not accept the book of Revelation to be inspired/valid.

@El'endiaStarman Ah this topic again eh?

That should probably be retagged christianity

El'endia Starman

@durron597 I agree.

@El'endiaStarman Do you get a little creeped out reading about the mythological backstories of proto-judaism and proto-christianity?

I'm Jewish... reading about how G-d was an amalgam of El and Baal definitely wigged me out.

El'endia Starman

@durron597 It is weird, yeah.

Hmmm. I might still answer that Keret question. It is good to have multiple answers...

5:23 PM

@El'endiaStarman My faith is different than what I suspect many other's faith to be

a big part of what I believe is that the ancient rabbis and prophets were just men like us

Just trying to get by in a hard world and a hard life.

@El'endiaStarman We definitely need to get our answer per question up according to area 51, but I'm more concerned about getting to 90% answer rate.

85% right now

El'endia Starman

@durron597 Quite similar for me. Men just like us, yes, but also with the ability to hear God and the devotion to follow Him no matter what.

@durron597 Well, I can't really answer any of the unanswered questions...

@El'endiaStarman Well, the other thing that I believe which is more controversial, is that I believe that the same supreme being actively 1) does not want us to be able to prove or disprove His existence, because "proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing" - Douglas Adams

and 2) That the many different faces of G-d that exist throughout the world are just different interpretations of the same being. I believe that my G-d would never punish a good, moral person in the afterlife just because they happened to believe in Shiva or Vishnu etc. or whatever

So it's actually probably less jarring for me to learn that G-d is an amalgamation of El and Baal (a reinterpretation of the same deific entity) than it might be for another.

New topic: we've got to stop awarding questions like this one with upvotes, imo

No research, one sentence. It's not bad enough to downvote (IMO), but it's certainly not good enough to upvote either.

I mean, compare to this question which only has one upvote (mine)

5:48 PM

@El'endiaStarman I used Revelation as an example, but the question was not intended to be restricted to it. Unless I'm mistaken, angels are a thing in Judaism too.

@Semaphore Yeah they are

But I don't think there's such a thing as "the Heavenly Host" in judaism

there's no concept of angels fighting in judaism?

@Semaphore What would they fight?

lucifer

He doesn't exist in Judaism

There not be dragons ;)

5:52 PM

there's no analogue to satan in judaism?

@Semaphore Nope. No Hell either.

Later Christian tradition came to use the Latin word for "morning star", lucifer, as a proper name ("Lucifer") for the Devil; as he was before his fall.[16] As a result, "'Lucifer' has become a by-word for Satan/the Devil in the Church and in popular literature",[3]

Lucifer (/ˈlʲuːsɪfər/ LEW-sif-ər) is the King James Version rendering of the Hebrew word הֵילֵל in Isaiah 14:12. This word, transliterated hêlêl or heylel, occurs only once in the Hebrew Bible and according to the KJV-influenced Strong's Concordance means "shining one, morning star". The word Lucifer is taken from the Latin Vulgate, which translates הֵילֵל as lucifer,[Isa 14:12] meaning "the morning star, the planet Venus", or, as an adjective, "light-bringing". The Septuagint renders הֵילֵל in Greek as ἑωσφόρος (heōsphoros), a name, literally "bringer of dawn", for the morning star. Later Christian...

The few references there are to angels are usually as messengers that sort of thing.

Angels in Judaism

In Judaism an angel (Hebrew: מַלְאָךְ‎ malak, plural malakim) is a messenger of God, an angelic envoy or an angel in general who appears throughout the Hebrew Bible, Rabbinic literature, and traditional Jewish liturgy. Angels in Judaism are categorized in different hierarchies. == Etymology == Hebrew "mal'akh" (מַלְאָךְ) is the standard Hebrew Bible word for "messenger", both human and divine, though it is less used for human messengers in Modern Hebrew as the latter is usually denoted by the term shaliyah (שליח). In the King James Bible, the noun mal'akh is rendered "angel" 111 times, "messenger...

this says that they are referenced as warriors also in the book of daniels

is that a misrepresentation?

@Semaphore 12 Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them. 13 But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia.

That's probably not combat

I mean, I suppose it could be

Oh, perhaps I'm wrong.

20 So he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? Soon I will return to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I go, the prince of Greece will come; 21 but first I will tell you what is written in the Book of Truth. (No one supports me against them except Michael, your prince.

perhaps this could be posted as question :P

Also, the book of Daniel is quite decidedly different than most of the other Hebrew writings

> Two of them (Daniel and Ezra) are the only books in Tanakh with significant portions in Aramaic.

> and the dominant view among scholars is that Daniel is not in any case a prophetic book but an apocalypse.

6:01 PM

that's not a reason to exclude it from judaism from a mythologist point of view, though

The Book of Daniel is an "account of the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon." In the Hebrew Bible it is found in the Ketuvim (writings), while in Christian Bibles it is grouped with the Major Prophets. The Jewish and Protestant versions of Daniel (the Greek and Catholic version contains additional material) divide into two parts, a set of tales in chapters 1–6 in which Daniel and his companions demonstrate the superiority of their God, and the series of visions making up chapters 7–12. Traditionally ascribed to Daniel himself, modern scholarly consensus considers the...

It's not that it should be excluded, it's just that Daniel was not a prophet.

based on the wikipedia articles anyway, there seems to be scattered references to angels fighting in the hebrew bible

It was also written much later

thats not terribly relevant to me

biblegateway.com/passage/…

That's probably more along the lines of what you're looking for

6:02 PM

i mean, i understand it may be viewed different theologically, but that's not my interest here

My understanding of what limited fighting there is by angels in the Old Testament

is that it's much more personal, like a wrestling match

not a war

where there would be a commander.

The book of daniels verses definitely sounds closer to what I had in mind, though it is debateable I suppose whether that could be interpreted in military terms

@Semaphore Right; because what I'm saying is that this kind of military combat isn't in the Old Testament, only in the New Testament.

There is no fallen angel with which Michael must fight

daniel is in old testament though

But that is debatable at best whether it's military combat or not

There isn't even a reference to an army

6:17 PM

I don't really see the point of this debate

As far as I'm concerned anyway for that question, I looked up heavenly host and the wiki article says it is referenced in the hebrew bible with a subsection en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

I was trying to answer your questions to the best of my understanding, that's all

If you think the answer is that, in judaism, angels did not fight, that can be posted as an answer

@Semaphore It seems to me that Christian teaching adds, to this issue, a measure of clarity that did not exist in Judaism

shrug a lot of this is my opinion / my understanding. I would want to do a lot more research before I posted this as an answer.

i understand

@durron597 I deleted my meta answer yesterday; I may or may not resurrect it as a question.

6:40 PM

@HDE226868 Yea saw that.

7:22 PM

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Q: What exactly does "Lord of Hosts" mean?

When I think of the Judaism, I don't think of Angelic armies attacking the armies of evil directly. G-d usually works in far more subtle ways than this, e.g. appearing as a burning bush to motivate Moses to act, rather than acting himself. Yet upon further study, perhaps this was a misconception...

words names hebrew tanach etymology

I posted it there because I'm looking for a Jewish expert, not a mythology expert.

@Yannis thanks. Aren't we supposed to get inbox messages if our posts are edited?

@durron597 Isn't that valid only for answers?

@EroSɘnnin Isn't what valid only for answers?

@durron597 inbox messages if our posts are edited

@EroSɘnnin Yeah, he edited an answer of mine. Twice actually. I didn't get a notification though.

@durron597 Did the editing happen within an hour of posting?

7:32 PM

@EroSɘnnin Nope. I did have the question open in a random tab though

@durron597 I got one when you edited my answer. If you didn't, then I suspect there's a char limit (my edit was fairly minor).

@Yannis yeah probably.

8:07 PM

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Q: What is the origin of the "wheat and chessboard" legend?

The "wheat and chessboard" fable describes a geometric problem that is often quoted in stories about the invention of chess. According to Wikipedia, the main theme of the fable is: When the creator of the game of chess (in some tellings an ancient Indian mathematician, in others a legendary d...

sports mathematics game chess

Would questions similar to ^^^ be on topic here?

El'endia Starman

@Yannis Hmmm....perhaps. I think that particular one does fit better on History.SE.

@El'endiaStarman Okay I wrote a question right up your alley

@El'endiaStarman I agree with you

I have a quick question about scope: have we made a decision about whether questions about ancient religions are on-topic (e.g. "How did the ancient greeks worship Zeus" -- though I would never ask that question because it shows no effort)?

the "cthonic Zeus cults" question did okay so I think that means we're leaning toward "yes"

I think such questions would fit right in the middle of the overlap between History.SE and Myth.SE.

8:17 PM

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Q: Are questions about who worshipped what on-topic?

So @Yannis asked this question: Which cities had chthonic Zeus cults? I am quite conflicted about whether such questions are on topic. It's a question about "whom did the people from this time period worship"? Not "what are the details of this particular mythological story? I think it's borderl...

discussion scope

We'll probably have to approach them on a case by case basis for a while.

It's not exactly the same but, given the results of that question, I would say your question ought to also be on topic.

@Yannis I think we may eventually lean towards no: my worry is that analysing stories (which is what most of our questions are concerned about) is very different from studying religion

@Christofian The point of scope is to keep the quality content providers interested in the site.

(though questions like "how did religious practice x affect story y" are definitely on topic)

8:20 PM

We should only limit scope when we discover that a particular topic is making people write crap questions

case-by-case is fine for now imo

@Christofian That may very well turn out to be the case.

I agree with case by case for now, I'm just wondering about the future

If it turns out that asking for "what type of animals did people sacrifice to poseidon?" starts happening all the time, something very easily googlable, then we'll have to limit scope.

@durron597 I'm not worried about crap questions, but I am worried about good questions not being able to get an answer here because we don't know as much about the topic

8:23 PM

@Christofian Oh ok. Still, my answer is the same: encourage more quality content until / if it becomes a problem.

Also, I have another more pressing question: should this meta question/answer be updated: meta.mythology.stackexchange.com/questions/26/…

I'm (slightly) biased, but I'm worried about new users getting the wrong idea when we go public.

I was very glad when I saw you running around telling people not to cite Wikipedia, I think we should try hard to cite proper sources in our private beta Qs and As since those are effectively the samples we show to everyone

once it's public, I think it's fine to let people simply give more upvotes to answers with better citations

I agree completely with michaelpri's answer

Other than encouraging people to use better stories (and if possible, quote the actual stories), I don't think there's much we can do @Christofian.

And by encouraging, I mean downvoting.

I'm not trying to make a new rule (my plan is to downvote)...

8:27 PM

I also really want to see us do a better job of not upvoting questions like this one

The idea of the question is fine, but... seriously?

but I'm worried that the most upvoted answer to that question will give people the wrong idea of what constitutes an acceptable answer

There's a long list of failed attempts at having a "general reference" close reason on various sites of the network.

I think we should wait until we have pro tems and then have one of them write an answer.

I don't think those couple of weeks will matter too much if we're aggressive with downvoting and commenting.

Also, we should all upvote michaelpri's answer if we haven't yet.

Eh? Why? Nothing special about mods and meta discussions.

@durron597 I think this question and answer should be the meta post we link to (regarding sources): meta.mythology.stackexchange.com/questions/105/…

8:30 PM

@Christofian Oh, duh. VTC the wikipedia one as a dupe of that one

What I think it does is it gives people alternatives to wikipedia and other bad sources

Weird, I was under the impression I had already upvoted that. Well, that's easy to fix.

possible duplicate of What are good sources when answering questions? — durron597 16 secs ago

@durron597 that solves the problem then

That works without getting a diamond involved or getting the OP to accept a correct answer.

8:32 PM

We'll probably need a copy of this on Meta shortly after we go public:

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Q: Why did I get a downvote?

Another in my aperiodic, quixotic rants intended to improve the quality of H:SE posts. I've seen a few questions on meta that resemble "why did I get a downvote?". It struck me that I can't be the only person who has a set of pet peeves that will trigger a downvote. If we explicitly list those c...

discussion questions down-votes

@durron597 Mark is History.SE's MichaelT when it comes to Meta.

@Yannis Yeah probably

Can everyone please vote to close this question about wikipedia as a duplicate of this question about sources so that when we go public new users will get better advice regarding sources.

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could someone please star the above message? that way everyone will see it

did the star, will VTC as soon as I can get back into the meta (it's giving me the redirect loop errors agian)

That's still happening?

durron597 has added Firas Assaad to the list of this room's owners.‌

8:37 PM

been happening pretty much every day, yeah

durron597 has removed Firas Assaad from the list of this room's owners.‌

weird.

Perhaps it's time for our first bug then. Once you get back to meta, that is.

durron597 has added Christofian to the list of this room's owners.‌

for some reason the Try > Meta link in the bar the top of the screen is far more reliable than all other links

@Yannis I used to get it on Programmers too, it might be a universal thing

8:38 PM

@Ixrec Is this a mobile problem or a desktop problem or both?

desktop only

@Ixrec Browser? Have you made an MSE post about it?

Chrome; I feel like I meant to ask on MSE but saw duplicates or something

@Ixrec I use Chrome, I have never seen this

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Q: Cannot login to some meta sites - asking a question causes a redirect loop

On various meta sites, including Arqade Meta, I cannot login to my account. I use a Stack Exchange Account and am trying this on Google Chrome 35 with no extensions enabled and third party cookies enabled. I've tried it with Firefox and it worked, and I can use the iOS app. I also tried using ...

bug meta login user-accounts

lol, I completely forgot I posted an answer to this

8:40 PM

@Ixrec Well, I upvoted.

also, when I can get in there's usually a "you're going to unsafe places" warning from my browser, which for some reason I never get on main sites

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Q: Invalid SSL certificate on meta.*.stackexchange.com, can't log in without SSL

When I try to access meta.*.stackexchange.com via HTTPS, I get a warning: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.stackexchange.com, stackexchange.com, meta.stackexchange.com, stackoverflow.com, *...

support login ssl

presumably that'd be this issue

@Ixrec I think I only connect with http. Do you always use https?

now I remember, I have HTTPS Everywhere and when I read that question I tried turning it off and that made it possible to log in on meta sites

which is a totally different bug from the redirect loop thing

though I guess they're probably related somehow

@Ixrec makes sense to me, maybe the cookies are borked somehow by https

right now, if I click the link in "got a question about the site itself? meta.mythology" on the main site I end up on meta not logged in, but if I use the help > meta link then I get to meta and am logged in

just to demonstrate how broken the whole thing is

8:45 PM

Can everyone please upvote the question and @Christofian's answer on this question about sources so it's clear that this is the canonical sources answer?

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8:57 PM

@durron597 neat, that upvote gave me a revival badge

@Ixrec Heh, nice.

mythology.stackexchange.com/questions/greatest-hits

> 0 questions

> Questions that got a large amount of views

@Yannis mythology.stackexchange.com/search?q=views%3A140

Well shouldn't that one be in the greatest hits?

Not that it really matters...

I really don't know why we're still in private. They need to "assess" us, I guess. As if the Area 51 stats aren't enough.

9:08 PM

Eh, I wouldn't be surprised if they just haven't found the time to evaluate the site's progress yet.

The Area51 stats are nonsense.

> 2.5 answers per question is good

No, not unless you are trying to build a forum anyway.

> 90% answered is a healthy beta, 80% answered needs some work

90% answered could very well also be a beta full of questions that are easily answered by a quick look at Wikipedia.

The only stat that's useful is the "avid users" one. Going public without at least a dozen of people with basic moderation privileges won't end well.

@Yannis I agree: you can't write a good answer the moment a question is asked

@durron597 ProgSE gets an "excellent" on its 7 answers per question. That's outright bs.

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A: Why were there exactly 12 Olympian Gods?

Plato suggests a connection between the monthly feasts, the Greek tribes and the gods: For the law will state that there are twelve feasts to the twelve gods who give their names to the several tribes: to each of these they shall perform monthly sacrifices and assign choirs and musical contes...

But anyway, I wouldn't worry about it. If there is a problem blocking going public, they'll tells us about it, and we'll get a chance to fix it.

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Q: Private Beta Extension

Given the volatile nature of the topic, Politics.SE has done a great job so far of keeping out most of the subjective discourse. However, we’re choosing to extend your private beta for a week to give you more time to set and solidify a productive scope and tone on the site. Politics are often pe...

discussion beta

If Politics made it, I'm pretty sure Myth will as well.

@Christofian Plato and Tolkien in the same answer? Well, I must say I didn't expect that.

9:25 PM

@Yannis Unsubstantiated answers are one thing we don't have a problem with.

@Yannis Oi, hadn't realized that. Agreed

@durron597 It used to be something like 15a/q. I was quite happy when I noticed it going down.

@Yannis From a CM, no less :)

All those questions with 50+ answers from the good old days weren't really a sign of a healthy site.

@Yannis s/good/"good"/

@JonEricson Welcome! That's a great answer. Hope to see you around more.

Anyone mind if I just bite the bullet and nuke abrahamic-religions in favor of judeo-christian once and for all? The same person wrote all three of the former tag's questions.

2 hours later…

11:20 PM

@durron597 I assume I missed something about this in chat, but why use "G-d"?

@HDE226868 It's a jewish thing

@HDE226868 judaism.about.com/od/judaismbasics/a/…

@durron597 Ah, thanks.

That's actually a very interesting convention. I applaud the collective Jewish community for being respectful.

@HDE226868 yw

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