It's important to highlight that Christianity StackExchange has a very different atmosphere to Mi Yodeya. Christianity SE is very much true to its mission of being a Q&A site about Christianity. It is not a Christian site. And that post on meta isn't just a claim. It's lived up to throughout the ...
@MonicaCellio Thanks for asking the question -- I finally got my tenth vote on that answer, which means that I now have the werewolf hunter hat on MY :)
@Shokhet closely related at least. The new question asks about the origin of the practice; another asks if the idea is Jewish but doesn't specify chupah in particular (so could be any time).
@MonicaCellio The new question is about marriage; the other two I linked are both about engagement. I was a little unclear; I meant to ask if the last two are duplicates of each other.
@Meta-Man @Yishai Even if the votes there don't show it (because voting means agree/disagree on meta) I'd like to thank you for asking that question. Even if the answer ends up being no, it's worth thinking about and considering.
At the end of Chanuka this year1, the Israeli Ministry of Education kicked off an exciting new project: "929 – Studying the Bible Together". The idea is very simple: each day, all different kinds of Jews study one chapter of Tanach together. It has some of the great features of Daf Yomi, such as...
@IsaacMoses @IsaacMoses it was almost the least I could do but I hope it is of some use. Your answers are hard to add to add to so 'complementary' was the goal.
@DoubleAA @IsaacMoses @MonicaCellio Even if the answer is that everything is fine (which it may well be) I hope the question serves as a counter-weight for future scope changes and rules enforcement. It is a delicate balance and I primarily wanted to point out that we need to be conscious that it is a balancing act, where super-crisp highly-enforced rules aren't always a good thing.
@Yishai Definitely keep your eyes open for any future developments that you think take us down the wrong path. I will too. If there are any specific past developments that you really think ought to be reversed/tweaked, I encourage you to post your own answer.
@Scimonster I agree, and the implied promise of one of those each week makes me happy. It's great watching for a Hebrew-deficient person like me, since I basically know the material and can certainly get the graphics, so that helps me understand the narration even when it uses words I don't know yet. I look forward to trying this out on my kids.
Using a blog to promote our content related to this sounds great. Unfortunately, SE has put a moratorium on new blogs, so we won't get their help with it. I don't know if an off-site, roll-our-own blog is practical, but maybe? Especially if we tweet links to each week's new post? — Monica Cellio ♦12 secs ago
@Scimonster last year, maybe -- another site (I forget which) tried to get one this summer. Since May (I think) they haven't created any new ones, and now they've decided they won't resume. :-(
For the sake of documenting the official response for later visitors, the reasoning behind the decline appears to be Jeff's comment on Pekka's answer:
there's no valid case for "I need to notify a large number of people" -- at least not one I will support by writing software for it. – Jeff At...
@MonicaCellio Not to be a downer, but I think that's an open question. We're a small community, we pretty much all have non-related full-time occupations, and it's difficult to keep turning out specific content on a schedule, as various of our projects and initiatives to date have demonstrated.
The 929 program would give us a good shot at it, as the weekly post could be compilation rather than full-on original material, but it's still a lot of work.
@IsaacMoses what? Why are you hanging your head? It was my unfortunate typo...
Which I've now fixed to avoid confusing anybody else.
@MonicaCellio I reacted to it as a pump-up for MY (all-caps "WE"), and it turned out to be a more dispassionate observation about another community. "Oh."
@Shokhet No reason not to answer it in the general way in which it's phrased. Your comment is totally appropriate, and could well be echoed in answers.
@Shokhet No problem. A comment like that is IMO nearly always appropriate for Halacha questions, unless there would be an unfortunate implication, like if the question is, say, about halachot of adultery, and doesn't give any hint that it may be lema'aseh
@Scimonster thanks. Alternate implementation suggestion: the meta post functions as the blog entry, meaning it's posted when the content is ready (not as a place to hang content in answers). Reason: there's an RSS feed for meta, and I'm pretty sure there are per-tag RSS feeds, so if we do it that way then posting the "question" pushes it out to feed readers.
@user813801 I rejected your edit, because it conflicts with the author's intent. If ray wants to remove that from his post, he can do that himself. — Shokhet21 secs ago
@Shokhet thanks for confirming. I knew it was possible to get email for new entries in subscribed tags and I thought there was RSS too, but I hadn't yet gone looking.
There are four slots available. Events go first, then featured meta posts, then other stuff. I don't know if all four slots can be consumed by events. (I think they probably shouldn't be, though; the meta exposure is important.)
@Scimonster I just tried to create a test event linking to hebrewbooks.com and it didn't appear in the list. It also didn't give me an error message (oops); it just disappeared into the void. So I think the answer is: on-site links only, based on minimal testing.
@IsaacMoses yup. We try not to overlap parshiyot, but holidays can add to the list.
I have a problem. On the one head, there's a hat to be gained by being up at 2am. On the other head, i need to be up at 4am. One the third head, i do want some sleep tonight.
You know, I've only just realized that that "answer a bountied question" hat that I've been unable to get here on MY is not a crooked lamp. Sure looks like one to me!
I feel like when i was a child (not that many years ago), Sesame Street had something called "Monster Time" towards the beginning of the show. If it existed, it was dropped around 10 years ago, i think.
I tried Googling, but couldn't find any info on it.
Did this exist, or am i imagining it?
@Scimonster that is Just Wrong. The real cookie monster eats cookies and eschews actual nutrition. Vegetables? What were they thinking? (In unrelated news, childhood obesity in Sesame Street's viewing area is on the rise...)
@Scimonster I feel like you've said that before. But I don't have time to spend any more time posting, so I'll have to hope more traffic passes through MY before UTC sunset.
That started early. On my 5-mile drive home just now I passed two accidents and narrowly avoided being hit by someone weaving at >20MPH over the limit. Nobody hurt, B"H, but I'm just as glad to be staying home on amateurs' night!
For the sake of documenting the official response for later visitors, the reasoning behind the decline appears to be Jeff's comment on Pekka's answer:
there's no valid case for "I need to notify a large number of people" -- at least not one I will support by writing software for it. – Jeff At...
Is there any prohibition, perhaps related to lo teileichu b'hukat hagoyim, in "wearing" a virtual hat which celebrates Saint Lucia day?
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I feel like when i was a child (not that many years ago), Sesame Street had something called "Monster Time" towards the beginning of the show. If it existed, it was dropped around 10 years ago, i think.
I tried Googling, but couldn't find any info on it.
Did this exist, or am i imagining it?
