If I want to use Mi Yodeya to create a crowd-sourced database, does the "question" of the thread which will contain the database have to be phrased as a question?
@YEZ Was trying to figure that out.....maybe because if I answer my own question it doesn't have to be phrased in the form of a good question ((blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/…ושלא [כדברי יואל)?
Wow, that didn't work.....just imagine the link on the words כדברי יואל, I'm not interested in fiddling with it to make it look nice.
@IsaacMoses A crowd-sourced list of products which are labeled OU-D but are in fact pareve. The validity of such a list would depend on the answer to this question.
So I could ask "What are some products that are labeled OU-D but are in fact pareve?" Or I could be forthright and say "As an internet resource, please list any products about which you have contacted the OU and they responded that the product is Kosher, with the date of your obtaining this information"
There are a few questions on this site that are in the form of "List all ...". Are these questions on topic?
Founders of Jewish movements
Accurate list of Gedolim
List of Techelet Wearers
words often mispronounced
Abbreviations before/after names
good learning site
At first glance, they a...
@msh210 Good point. I thought that was fairly obvious, but you're right, I didn't say that.
@msh210 How does this sound to you? "I don't think anybody would argue that Ebola is a חולי שיש בו סכנה (an illness that involves danger to life) which means that we not only may but must violate Shabbos in order to provide care for an Ebola patient."
I tend to daven (pray) without sufficient focus and very quickly. In particular, I find that most of the time that I'm praying, my mind is on things other than the words that I'm saying. And, not that comparison with others is ideal in this realm, but for what it's worth, I frequently find that I...
If I read it right, today someone removed an upvote on this question and replaced it with a downvote. Why? — Shokhet23 secs ago
@Shokhet My rep shows -7 for that question, which I believe is -5 for subtracted upvote, and -2 for one downvote.....question also used to have a score of 10, now 8 (+9, -1)
My theory is that it was the same person......are you willing to own up to it and explain?
( another theory is that it's answerer's revenge for not awarding the bounty, but [AFAIK], @GeminiMan and user6591 are upstanding MY citizens.....so what gives? )
@Scimonster Why not? .....they just won't be applied immediately.
@YEZ I'm currently working on a very long post -- question and answer set. After a lot of time spent on it last night, I checked on SE's version just now, and found that it only had the first two lines of my answer......I have the whole thing in a .md file on my desktop.
@Scimonster I've used Linux in the past, but just got a new Windows 8.1 computer.....between the fact that it's pretty fast as it is, and because I still haven't figured out how to get around UEFI boot, I'm sticking with it for now :)
@Shokhet I once had a very long outline of a shiur that I was giving, saved in Microsoft Word, disappear, because for some reason the Normal template got changed and it was saved under a different template than the one that loaded, and it only reappeared when for some reason the other template loaded (long after I needed the outline).
I don't know what any of that actually meant, but that's what I understood to have happened.
@YEZ Save it in Notepad anyway. Or in a .md file, for redundancy ;-)
@Scimonster Nothing beats free, that's right :)
(MS Office was the only software I ever paid for [except Windows, but that came with the computer....]; I think it was worth it for Onenote -- I don't think there is (yet?) a free equivalent)
Want to post a handy link to this Midrash, but there's Hebrew and no English. Oh, well. Hey, wait, this is the age of Me! <typetypetypetypetype> Problem solved. (Feel free to make it better, BTW.)
This question will collect Q&As, formatted for the book, for "Chanuka - Mi Yodeya?". The concept of this book is that it will contain eight two-page sections, one for each day of Chanuka, and each section will contain one page (usually one Q&A) that is as accessible as possible to all audiences a...
There are a few questions on this site that are in the form of "List all ...". Are these questions on topic?
Founders of Jewish movements
Accurate list of Gedolim
List of Techelet Wearers
words often mispronounced
Abbreviations before/after names
good learning site
At first glance, they a...
Oreo Original Sandwich Cookie, Double Stuf Sandwich Cookie, and Mini Original Sandwich Cookie - August 2014
mi-yodeya-series is listed as having 328 questions right now. However, the most recent question is 327.
What is the extra question in here?
