V'dibarta Bam

3:37 AM

@msh210 That seems like a wide window. "Why do some Jews wear yellow on Chanuka?"

2 hours later…

5:42 AM

Is there any reason I shouldn't protect a question if it has gotten a number of poor answers from new users, and is the type of question which would be prone to such a thing?

msh210

6:23 AM

@YeZ Very poor (maybe even closureworthy as unclear, depending on how it's asked) but on-topic AFAICT: it's a question about Chanuka.

@YeZ If the most recent ones of those answers are recent, then no, not that I can think of.

7 hours later…

1:49 PM

@YeZ Questions should be protected when they are garnering lots of views and newbies are adding "me too!", "thanks!" and possibly even spam non-answers.

In other words, yes please protect if you see bad answers/non-answers/spam from new users piling on.

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msh210

5:08 PM

Why on earth hasn't judaism.stackexchange.com/q/3273 been closed? It's clearly about Jews, not Judaism. Am I missing something?

5:19 PM

@msh210 Slipped past the mods' attention?

@msh210 last active 1 year ago. I'm guessing it was on-topic when asked (and answered), which was a while ago. On the one hand it's off-topic now per our documentation; on the other hand that makes me a little sad for some reason I can't nail down.

@MonicaCellio because it's only a half-step removed from your high-quality and popular question about feeding vegetarians at a seder? :)

@IsaacMoses hmm, maybe. Implementation questions for a seder are IMO definitely on-topic, though -- I mean, "what can I feed a vegetarian" wouldn't be, but mix in the dietary restrictions and food-prep halacha of Pesach and you've got complex problems. But on the other hand, "what can I feed a vegetarian for Shabbat dinner" feels like it's too open. Hmm...

A: How shall we celebrate Mi Yodeya's fifth birthday?

6:15 PM

I propose that at Shabbat lunch on Shabbat Parashat Vayeishev (Dec. 12-13), people inclined to celebrate Mi Yodeya should: Say a devar Torah. (If you need an idea for one, you could always read a Q&A about the parsha.) Raise a glass to Mi Yodeya and bless each other and our community with "Lech...

A bunch of us will be celebrating MY's fifth birthday this Shabbat. If you'd like to celebrate with us from afar, see this ^^^

Double AA

@MonicaCellio Shall I historical lock it? @msh210

@DoubleAA close, anyway. My gut feeling is that we should reserve locks for things that are getting lots of unwanted attention. This doesn't seem to be.

6:30 PM

@msh210 @MonicaCellio This fellow has gotten an accumulation of bad answers. None are incredibly new. But you could see why it's the type.

@YeZ Looks like a good protection target to me

@IsaacMoses Dibs! It's my first one!

@MonicaCellio Aww you had to beat me to it!

I've half a mind to unprotect it and then reprotect it.

@YeZ I just protected it. Sorry, didn't mean to scoop you. :-)

Shokhet

@msh210 It was mentioned in the discussion here ..... it's unclear to me if that discussion ever had a real conclusion

Meta-Man

6:58 PM

Q: Practical Survey Questions

I am presently working on the typography for a siddur, based primarily on the Rödelheim editions. As I am doing all of the rubrications, I would rather create a user-friendly siddur, not something which annoys daveners. As such, I would like to ask questions about usability of the general populou...

discussion

7:17 PM

@Shokhet Aha! I knew it'd been discussed at some point, and searched chat for it, but came up empty.

Noach mi Frankfurt

Does anyone have a preference for the position of L'David Baruch, V'hi Noam, and V'yiten Lecha in a siddur for when they're davening maariv on motzei shabbat?

@NoachmiFrankfurt Whenever I come across a sidur that has Viyhi no'am right after weekday (or Motaza-ei Shabbat, if it's printed separately) Ma'ariv, I rejoice.

Shokhet

@IsaacMoses @NoachmiFrankfurt Same. I really dislike flipping a bunch of pages to get to V'hi Noam.

Noach mi Frankfurt

@IsaacMoses That's what I was going to do, but every siddur I see follows its own drum.

@NoachmiFrankfurt Pretty much 100% of the time that it's said, it's said right after a weekday Ma'ariv. The only argument I can think of for printing it after Shabbat Mincha is that it can then be in the Shabbat section of the Siddur and findable via that part of the TOC. You can work around that by adding an entry to the TOC after Shabbat Mincha that says "(Motza-ei Shabbat is back there, after weekday Ma'ariv)"

Noach mi Frankfurt

7:29 PM

@IsaacMoses, it's not a question of where it's said, it's a question of where it's placed. I'm probably going to put it right after Maariv, because that's easier for me, but it does get around.

8:08 PM

@NoachmiFrankfurt That's easier for me too.

8:20 PM

Writing the blog post promoting C-MY?.

@Scimonster .

@Scimonster Can you link it here, or would that cause unwanted world-collision?

@IsaacMoses I will certainly link it here.

@Scimonster Excellent

8:38 PM

What's with the new captcha?

Q: captcha broken on Stack Overflow - No Challenge Shown

I attempted to post an answer this morning and got the "Are You Human" Captcha dialog -- however, it was just the captcha dialog window without any challenge captcha and no place to enter any response. The only action the window allowed was clicking [X]: Is captcha down? I posted answers 6 hou...

support captcha

Q: Please use the new reCaptcha on the human verification dialog

I posted a question this morning and got this beauty of a Captcha: Can you read that? Go ahead, get your glasses. Still no? We can fix this: Google announced a new reCaptcha API that is captcha-less. It looks like this: Instead of staring down some distorted words and numbers, we c...

feature-request status-completed captcha

@IsaacMoses Done! kosherfrugal.com/2014/12/…

@Scimonster Yeyasher kochacha!

@IsaacMoses I used your link trick - use s.tk/miyodeya as the text with my share link as the href

@Scimonster I noticed :)

8:58 PM

@Scimonster Here's hoping you get a Publicist out of it. :)

9:24 PM

Instead of saying download, should we say open online?

@Scimonster because of people who like to right-click and "save link as"?

@IsaacMoses Or people like me who don't always like to download things.

@Scimonster The main point of this project is to make a thing for people to print. If they want to read online, we have a much better and more dynamic medium for that.