We've discussed naming our chat room before, but never came to a conclusion. Let's do this again, with two changes:
We now know that this site will be launched out of beta in about a week, B"H, under the name Mi Yodeya. A close-to-final draft of the design should be posted here on meta soon.
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@DoubleAA I didn't mean to fish. I haven't been tracking our individual users enough to have a good sense of who's been overlooked or is near an important threshold. Any suggestions? (I usually surf by tags rather than users and would be happy to receive better guidance.)
@MonicaCellio I never thought you were intending that. But that doesn't affect the quality of your answers negatively. In fact, my knowing you weren't intending that shows just the opposite.
At Monica's suggestion, I will point out that our most active editor who won't have editing rights after graduation (2000 rep) AND who doesn't routinely throw away his rep as bounties is: Adam Mosheh.
(See if you can guess who was actually our most active editor under 2k!)
In any meta site for a Stack Exchange 2.0 site, there is a tab in the "users" page that shows the users basing on their participation. On the meta site for Drupal Answers, that page appears as in the following screenshot (I limited the screenshot to the first two lines).
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Wow. Yeah, it would be easy to get too wrapped up in the numbers by spending a lot of time there. I'm only paying attention now because a lot of people are about to lose a lot of privs.
@isaacmoses, I know, its just hard to imagine a j.se without eiz'l. IAE, then "the one with reb yoel on the board" sounds good. — HodofHodDec 13 '11 at 20:15
Feature request: Known users. Some kind of thing that recognizes that two users could not possibly be the same person, and prejudices the vote fraud algorithm to defend against that
Thank you all very much for helping me out in the chat. I feel more confident to present the designs to the broader community. Hopefully there won't be major design changes once I post it on Meta.
@IsaacMoses Not willing, but may be forced. I'm going to drop off of chat and go feed the cat and stuff, and check meta before retiring -- assuming Verizon can cough up the bits. :-)
Oh wait -- I have a phone! No, I do not have to wait to see it!
I was just asking per: "Please respect that in the Jewish tradition certain questions, especially certain questions relating to sexuality, are discussed only in private. Such questions will be closed or deleted at the discretion of the moderators or community." Better to make a decision quickly if one needs to be made.
Baruch, welcome to Judaism.SE, and thanks very much for bringing your question here! Please consider registering your account, which will give you access to more of the site's features. — Isaac Moses23 mins ago
Since the beginning of mi.yodeya, and continuing now on Judaism.SE, I've made it my practice to welcome new users. I'd like to make it clear that while I'm happy to continue doing this whenever I get the opportunity, anyone else who wants to is more than welcome to also do it (as some have).
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@ShmuelBrin Does what? Edits out the content? I think others have done that more than I have, FWIW. The point is to that the offensive stuff doesn't offend the eyes of those who can see deleted stuff, unless they choose to go digging.
Shalom! I'm Jin, I work on the designs for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflect its topic and culture. However, all sites will share common elements so they feel like they're part of the Stack Exchange family.
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@HodofHod I think if every employee did have a diamond, it'd be pretty confusing. Maybe it makes sense to have the community team members to be mods since they deal with sites' maintenance more closely than the other employees.
Okay... there seems to be some discrepancy between the order of things in the chumash and the actual crhonologcial order the kohen gadol did things on Yom Kipur. (And a dispute amongst rishonim as to what the discrepancy is exactly.) is there a reason the Torah didn't put the events in chronological order? Any conjectures, or anyone know?
@Alex that makes sense. The torah sometimes describes things out of order and sometimes it's for thematic groupings, though probably not always. But that's a good place to start.
@msh210 There's the fact that the Torah mentions Terach's (and Yitzchak's) deaths long before they actually happened, because it's finishing up with them and then going on to the next generation
@msh210 According to Rashi, yes, because he says that this led to Adam getting back together with Chava and fathering Sheis. But I don't think everyone agrees to that; it might well have been some other time during the thousand-plus years until the flood.
@Alex oh, I didn't realize that. Though I know the lifespans overlapped way more than my instinct says and I'm often surprised by who was contemporary.
And while we're off on the tangent, is it Shim'on ben Shetach or ben Shatach? or ben Shetach except pausally and then Shatach? I've seen all three, I think (or at least the latter two)
@jake, welcome to the parsha chat, or whatever it's become. Sorry, I didn't see you walk in.
If we want to go back to the parsha (at least as a starting point): One thing that struck me reading this week (though it's all over the place, really): why do we get "speak to Aharon (and his sons) and all b'nei Yisrael"? Isn't that redundant? What is this repetition meant to teach us?
@MonicaCellio I'm pretty sure Rashi says, somewhere (@Alex?), that Moshe taught the mitzvos to Aharon, then the two of them to his sons and other leaders, and then all of them taught all the Jews. Or something like that: don't quote me on that exactly.
I was wondering this week, actually, in relation to the arayos. We paskin that kiddushin is tofes only for chiyuvei kares, right? Doesn't this mean that between a Jew and a non-Jew, kiddushin does take affect, since it's only a lav?
@MonicaCellio With the beginning of ch. 19, Rashi mentions that Moshe was to speak publicly to everyone at once (bypassing the normal order, I guess). Dunno about other cases.
@MonicaCellio Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Maybe the kohanim particularly need to be warned to not let their friends convince them to offer their korbanos anywhere.
@jake A relationship between a Jew and a non-Jew is indeed subject to kares, although only midivrei kabbalah (based on a verse in Nach rather than in the Torah)
It's derived from "Lo Sitchaten Bam" - There isn't a concept of marriage (According to R' Shimon) or from ואחר כן תבוא אליה ובעלתה (According to R' Yehuda) - After one does the process of Yefes Toar there is a concept of marriage, but beforehand there is no marriage.
Speaking of things out of order, and of forbidden relations: how come the Torah puts ch. 19 (with its massive number of mitzvos, both interpersonal and between us and Hashem) between chs. 18 and 20, both of which talk about forbidden relations?
@MonicaCellio As is the ordering within that chapter: respect parents, keep Shabbos, stay away from idols (so far three of the Ten Commandments, but out of order), rules for sacrifices, harvest gifts for the poor... and that's just the first ten verses or so!
@MonicaCellio Well, that's what leads Rashi to say that it was said at a public gathering, "because most of the fundamentals of Torah are included in it."
@Alex ah. I was wondering if it meant "hey all, this is really important, women and kids too -- listen up". Versus just relying on the men to manage/teach?
@MonicaCellio Well, a public gathering may well include women and kids, but it means all the jews directly rather than Aharon first, etc., as described above. According to Rashi, anyway.
@msh210 Which is interesting, then, because when it says "bnei Aharon" it's often explained to mean "but not the daughters," but that doesn't seem to be the case with (most) mentions of "bnei Yisrael."
@msh210 His introduction to the commentary on Vayikra (which is a supercommentary on Sifra, mostly). He lists there 613 rules of Hebrew grammar, syntax, use of extra words, etc., and how those are used by Chazal to derive halachos
@msh210 @MonicaCellio Okay, one thing I see he says is that עדה means some kind of Sanhedrin (even just a local one), whereas עדת ישראל means the national Sanhedrin
@MonicaCellio Right, he says that that's the difference between kahal and edah: a kahal is just a gathering of people, an edah is a gathering at a specific time and with a specific agenda
@msh210 Dunno, but maybe because this was the first time they were going to be doing it?
I think I'm going to have to take off from our "edah" here for now, and get back to work. Thanks, @msh210, @MonicaCellio, @jake and @ShmuelBrin for an interetsting discussion, as always!
Suppose someone offers a bounty and i want to increase that bounty - is there a way to do that? If not is it possible to set it up that others can increase a bounty.
There's a really informative page that anyone can visit describing the various levels of reputation along with the benefits conferred by reaching each milestone. Currently, because we are in beta, the reputation required is reduced and those numbers are correctly shown.
However, we are now fast ...
In any meta site for a Stack Exchange 2.0 site, there is a tab in the "users" page that shows the users basing on their participation. On the meta site for Drupal Answers, that page appears as in the following screenshot (I limited the screenshot to the first two lines).
To make a comparison, ...
Suppose someone offers a bounty and i want to increase that bounty - is there a way to do that? If not is it possible to set it up that others can increase a bounty.
