@MonicaCellio Excellent question. I think the only real objection to word-synonym tags is that they're neither necessary (because we can synonymize) not The SE Way. (If there was another objection, I can't remember it at the moment.) Is that enough of a reason to get rid of them? I'm not sure. Is it enough of a reason to not make new ones? I think so. But in a case where either word alone would be ambiguous, then I agree we should have two. What do you think?
@msh210 Dunno but yeyasher kochachem to you and to @HodofHod for recent Announcer badges.
@msh210 ... It has 274 views now, none of which are due to my pitching it. However, I just now posted it to reddit, because it is, after all, good stuff. So, some of the ones after 274 will, B"H, be mine.
@msh210 I think that Dori thought they were confusing for some reason, but I never understood her argument.
@IsaacMoses that badge was a complete surprise to me. I share links to various interesting and unanswered questions every once in a while. I shared that one over a month ago. If they hadn't removed the time requirements from the badge i never would have gotten it.
@IsaacMoses Facebook, usually. Google+ once or twice. 'Fraid I haven't got enough Jewish friends on the latter service to share links there very often.
@IsaacMoses 25 since december 28th? unfortunately not that much. Seems most of my fb friends just want to post pictures with funny captions. I mostly use G+ these days. More actual information there.
@IsaacMoses, Idk, I always found the idea of unknown persons reading my posts unnerving. Then again, I guess that's to be expected when one shares their posts publicly. I take it back. Not creepy at all. :-D
@IsaacMoses btw, I just noticed after editing the "tzitzis" tag, that the definition it has doesn't apply to its synonym, "tallis katan". thoughts? change the tag definition? un-synonymize the tags?
BTW, what's your opinion on Purim Torah? I'm surprised that no one's made the case to forbid, and I'm wondering if shetika is indeed kehoda-a. (If we go another couple of days without dissent, I think I'll codify the current opinion on the table.)
@HodofHod Are there guidelines you'd add other than the ones already expressed on meta, or would you basically leave it up to people's and mods' common sense? Does Adar 1 - 17 sound right to you?
@IsaacMoses There's a rather well-known Rosh Yeshiva in LA that I was told this story about, but I have no idea if it's true or not, so I won't say his name. Story goes, that when he was a bochur in yeshiva, they had a tradition that every year, one bochur would be appointed to give a good purim torah. That year they picked this Rosh Yeshiva.
He made his way up to the shtender in the front of the beis medrash, where he proceeded to quote a Rambam and then asked question on it. He then built a huge pilpul on top of this whole thing. He spoke for 45 minutes, darshaning this way and that, and at the end he just finished up and walked off.
So the other bochurim grab him and say "Where was the Purim Torah???"
He replied, "the purim torah?? There's no such Rambam"
Did Jethro convert? And, was it before or after the Torah was given? I heard a few things this past shabbat, but I would like to see if we can compile all of the midrashic and aggadic opinions and learn this sugya together.
"I heard a few things this past shabbat" is I suppose a basis for a question (though it'd be much improved if he'd include in the question what he heard this past shabas), but the "and learn this sugya together" is making me reach [cont'd]
[cont'd] for the "This question is not a good fit to our Q&A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion." button. Pinging @adam too.
@msh210 I'm unsure. On the one hand, SE provides a mechanism (synonyms) so we should follow that. On the other hand, if we can teach someone the Hebrew for what he typed in English by having it show up right there in the tags list, is that enough reason to leave the tags as they are? Or do only a few beginners do that and they'll learn soon enough anyway so don't sweat it? As I said, it wasn't a strongly-held opinion. :-)
@IsaacMoses Ah, I was wondering why all those tzitzit/talit questions showed up this morning. :-)
Especially on the smaller stackexchange sites, the main page's active list is the main place to go to see the new activity. However sometimes, new answers and questions are lost, or flushed through too quickly by much retagging of old questions. I'm all for retagging old questions as it helps kee...