@Alex To be fair, it does say "skip to the bottom" at the top.

But I can imagine instances in which I read a question, have some thoughts about how I would answer it, and one or two points that I think would be indispensable in a good answer, then see an answer that contains the indispensable point, and immediately +1 it in my mind. If it's a point I'm really excited about that could translate into a physical +1 even before I read the rest of it. Of course if I change my mind later I just reverse my vote.

@WAF Yes and no (to your last point). You only have a short amount of time (five minutes? I forget) to reverse or even undo a vote, unless the post's been edited in the interim.

@msh210 (following this) Have you seen any other interesting commentaries on the pig story?

@IsaacMoses If so, it was in 2012, and I've forgotten, I'm afraid.

@IsaacMoses Often, Ben Y'hoyada has something interesting to say about agada.

@IsaacMoses Which location did you learn recently, that got you to post the answer?

@msh210 We were looking for commentary on the pig story, specifically, in any location

@msh210 Thanks. I'll take a look

@IsaacMoses Right, of course. I was asking just out of curiosity.

@msh210 I mean, we weren't learning any of these gemaras in order at the time

My son's working on a devar Torah about korban Tamid, and he wanted to integrate that story into it

@IsaacMoses ah.

Korban tamid is a great thing to give a d'var Tora on: it's always inyana d'yoma. :-)

@msh210 Not just an inyan, literally a Mo'ed every day, per the Torah

... but also, the pig story gives an opportunity for extra seasonality in Tamuz

@IsaacMoses true, nice.

@msh210 Haven't read it yet, but he has plenty to say.

@IsaacMoses בתאבון

How do you format a post with a footnote as in this answer?

@IsaacMoses You're the one that did it, so I assume you know how.

@Alex You can click "edit" on the post to see the source. There's no button for it. To make a reference in the text, I write <sup>1</sup>. At the bottom, I add --- for a line and then <sup>1. Footnote text ...</sup> for each footnote

sup is the HTML tag for superscript, which means small print, set half a line above the normal base line.

I don't know if you're used to HTML, but in HTML, you format text by putting a tag that specifies the format before the text and a tag that specifies ending the format (with a /) after the text.

I add a few spaces at the end of each footnote so that I can put them on successive lines in the source, and they end up rendered on successive lines, rather than all on one line.

@IsaacMoses Thanks, got it.