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Meta-Man
Meta-Man
1:04 AM
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Q: Hopw is bounty awarded when a question already has an accepted answer?

DanFI'm a bit unclear regarding the bounty policy. I gather that a bounty is automatically awarded to the accepted answer (if the "bounty"er didn't manually award the bounty.) Does the system distinguish between an answer that had already been accepted prior to the bounty being awarded? I ask this b...

support bounty
 
 
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msh210
msh210
7:18 AM
IMO a question that arises only because the asker deliberately omitted part of a quotation to be able to ask it violates our riddle policy. — msh210 ♦ 1 min ago
 
 
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רבות מחשבות
רבות מחשבות
5:41 PM
@msh210 I agree with that, but two points to add: 1. I posted an answer with it, so I didn't really intend to trick people, rather to share knowledge. 2. Technically speaking, I could have quoted the entire thing and asked how the Bahag who lived several hundred years before the Bach could have been quoting him, but I felt it unnecessary. That being said, I completely agree with its closure as a question on this site, I just thought it would be an interesting quote for people to see.
 
Isaac Moses
Isaac Moses
6:15 PM
@רבותמחשבות Thanks for your understanding. Closure is a judgement of fit for our format, not of Torah value.
 
msh210
msh210
@רבותמחשבות Thanks for your understanding. And what @IsaacMoses just said. And in the future, if you know something is unfit as a question on the site but you think it'll be interesting for people to see, post it here in Bam.
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רבות מחשבות
רבות מחשבות
6:36 PM
@Both_of_you That makes sense, Thanks for the clarification and understanding! Good idea.
 
Shmuel Brin
Shmuel Brin
Can't comment there as it's deleted, but I think it's a good question (I had it myself when learning the Sugya).

Just because he discovered that the Behag was the Be'er HaGolah before asking shouldn't make the question bad imo.
 
רבות מחשבות
רבות מחשבות
@ShmuelBrin I deleted it because I am maskim that it would fit the riddle definition. Meaning, I didn't ask it because I was wondering these things, but rather because I wanted to share this discovery. Unfortunately, that is against MY rules.
@ShmuelBrin but yes, when I stumbled upon it too (a few years ago), I had the same question, and figured it out. So I also think it's a good question.
 
Isaac Moses
Isaac Moses
6:57 PM
@רבותמחשבות @ShmuelBrin sounds to me like it could maybe be tweaked and re-opened. Could be enough to simply provide the entire quotation in the question post. There's no shame in the question simply being based on an incorrect premise, which becomes clear when you delve into an aspect of the text quoted there. @msh210?
 
Meta-Man
Meta-Man
7:14 PM
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Q: Reputation in Chat

רבות מחשבותAs usual, apologies if this has been asked before. I'm just wondering if there is a different reputation calculator within Chat rooms, as my reputation is boosted there by about 200+ rep points relative to the actual rep on my MY user screen. Is this by design? As an example, in Vedibarta Bam...

bug chat reputation
 
 
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Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
8:19 PM
@IsaacMoses @רבותמחשבות asking and answering a question in order to share knowledge is a fine use of the site. In this case it looks like the answer was found in the part of the text elided in the question, which feels iffy (you obviously had the text). But if it's really that you initially misunderstood that text, a good way to do it would be to include the whole quote and your (mis)interpretation in the question and then clarify how we should really read it in the answer.
I don't understand this question well enough to comment specifically, but does that approach make sense?
 
msh210
msh210
9:16 PM
@IsaacMoses I concur.
@MonicaCellio I concur.
 
רבות מחשבות
רבות מחשבות
9:29 PM
Ok, everyone, undeleted now. @ShmuelBrin I leave the editing to you...
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
9:41 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer: Not Forgotten Until Name is Forgotten by Gordon Ashworth on judaism.SE
 
 
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רבות מחשבות
רבות מחשבות
11:11 PM
Asking a question to source Rishonim (e.g. IE, Radak, Ramban, RY Hachasid, etc) that hold that there were later additions to the Torah outside of final 8 Pesukim by Yehoshua - appropriate or not?
 

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