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4:23 AM

Q: Scheduling tags for the community bulletin board

We have a community bulletin board on our site. Here's a near-current screenshot of the homepage: You can see four items listen sub "Community Bulletin". The first two are marked "event" and called "miketz questions" (linking to http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/miketz) and "ch...

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Isaac Moses

7:02 AM

You may now commence consuming the fruits of mi.yodeya, as long as you do so bikedusha in Yerushalayim.

Or cut its hair, if you want.

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Monica Cellio

1:57 PM

@IsaacMoses Uh-oh. I've been consuming the fruits of Mi Yodeya since I joined without realizing it! But at least I have never cut its hair.

Stack Exchange

2:18 PM

Blog - Stack Exchange: Announcing the Apptivate.MS competition semi-finals

Abby T. Miller on December 10, 2012

When we announced the Apptivate.MS competition two months ago, we were hoping that a few members of this community would create and submit a few solid Windows 8 apps – forty or fifty, maybe. A hundred if it really went well.

So when we saw all of the high-quality and innovative app submissions that poured in, we were quite frankly blown away. The Stack Overflow community submitted almost 400 apps. See for yourself!

Yet again, the Stack Overflow community has crushed it.

The quality and size of the submission pool made our next job really, really difficult: narrowing them down to just 50 app …

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Isaac Moses

3:24 PM

@MonicaCellio I think if you got to Mi Yodeya before it was revealed to be a tree, you're grandmothered in.

Stack Exchange

Q: How can I delete my account?

I inadvertently created an account at this StackExchange site but am not going to be using it, and I like to keep my StackExchange account as clean as possible, so I'd like to delete it. I have not posted or voted (well, except for this question). How can I delete my account?

feature-request support deleted-users

Monica Cellio

@IsaacMoses Oh, nice one! :-)

Stack Exchange

4:31 PM

Q: Community Promotion Ads - 2013

As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year. What are Community Promotion Ads? Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting pro...

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Stack Exchange

9:51 PM

Q: What transliteration or anglicisation should we use for Hebrew words?

What transliteration or anglicisation should we use for Hebrew words? Sometimes words are in the dictionary and have accepted spellings. Other times Hebrew words (names especially) have English versions of them that don't sound at all like the Hebrew. There are also cases where there is not one ...