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This hat encourages people to delete no-longer-relevant comments, which is good. However, it also encouraged them to remove their side of a conversation and then flag the other side for moderator handling. One comment at a time. All over the place. And only moderators can handle t...
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@Shokhet that's nicael. I don't know what his story is, but he's posted a lot of bounties, and if there's a pattern to the questions he chooses I haven't discerned it yet.
I apologise in advance if this is not the place to ask this question.
Is "reputation scoring" against the spirit of Pirkei Ovos 4 (5) "Rabbi Tzaddok would say: Do not make the Torah a crown to magnify yourself with, ...."
@MonicaCellio I'm not the screenshot type. I tried to take a screenshot of exactly 21k, but I forgot to paste it anywhere before I copied something else!
This is pretty innocuous, and I'm more asking out of curiosity, but I seem to have more reputation for the year than I have reputation total. Specifically at the time of this posting, 6012 total and 6032 for the year.
Month-by-month, I gained 15 reputation for the year over my total in January,...
Answer can be found here - downvotes and deleted posts are not counted in your monthly (and I assume yearly) score, but are factored in to the displayed total score.
Now that I've been here a few years, one thing I've come to appreciate is that warm glow when questions I asked on the parsha last year, or the year before, get tickled because they're current again. Torah is cyclical here too, not just in our offline studies.
@IsaacMoses I've been noticing over the course of Winterbash that you've had some of the niftiest hat placements I've seen around the network. Nice job! And I'm finally remembering to tell you.
Alright. Gotta get a move on. This is the one chol night of the year that I try to be asleep before midnight. TZT, everyone, and may we all merit to see Jerusalem rebuilt in its proper glory.
@YeZ I thought we'd talked about your impressive millinery feats enough for you to have seen my appreciation, but if I've neglected you I do apologize.
.....one thing that I'll have to get used to is seeing posts with "'14" on them. ....having only been here less than a year, I got used to deciding that anything with a year number on it was old .....things from yesterday, even today now have a year marker on them!
@MonicaCellio I just flagged 10 legitimately obsolete comments (some of which from deleting my own genuinely obsolete comments). Just pointing it out in light of your meta post. (And to possibly pique your interest enough to go handle some flags :-P)
By the way, a general note: if you find a post where all the comments should go away, or all of them from a certain point onward, then instead of flagging them individually, please drop one flag on the post itself and tell us what's going on. That's a little easier to handle.
@YeZ here? If so... oops. Sometimes we do let something linger for a little while, particularly if we've taken some action and need to see what followup happens (e.g. asking for an edit), but I don't think we've let things go for months. I hope...
(I've had flags linger for months on some other sites, though.)
@MonicaCellio It was a flag that we actually discussed, and no one was sure how to handle it.
@MonicaCellio Someone had responded to my post in another post, but they didn't have enough rep to comment, and their response to my post really was a sort of answer, but they misunderstood my post. And they may or may not have been the author of the work I was quoting in my post.
Question: are flags kept private for the benefit of the flagger, or for the benefit of the flag handlers? .....IOW, if there's a flag I'd like to discuss openly, and I don't mind discussing it, should I hold back from doing so out of concern for the moderator?
.....been meaning to ask that for a while, but was reminded of it now that flags are under discussion
@Shokhet you are free to reveal your own actions if you like. Mods will not "out" a flagger (we won't say who flagged something), for the same general reasons that the SE software won't show you who downvoted.
Wabt when it comes to discussing how a flag was dealt with?
.....I remember a Meta WB post where I asked a question but didn't link to the post in question out of concern for revealing something that shouldn't be revealed
We also want as much stuff to be handled by the community, rather than just us, as is practical -- so if discussing a situation with other users will help make that happen, we all win. Sometimes, for example, the community rallies close or delete votes before a mod even sees it. Or if there's an edit that's needed but you can't make it, bringing it up increases the chances that somebody else will do it.
@Shokhet if you want to publicly ask "why was my flag for such-and-such reason on thus-and-such post declined", you can do that.
On Mi Yodeya in particular I think we all also want to be mindful of the flagee here. If there's a problem then we need to fix it, but we want to minimize embarrassment for the person whose problem is about to be fixed.
@MonicaCellio @IsaacMoses Except that double parashiyos get two links. (There's a way to link to the list of questions that have two specific tags, but no way AFAIK to link to the list of Qs that have either of two. Do you know differently? That'd be nice for this.)
In the modern linguistic school of thought, are Ancient Hebrew and Ancient Greek related? Hebrew is classified as Afroasiatic->Semitic, while Greek is Indo-European->Hellenic. However, in Jewish tradition, they are considered related.
A Sefer Torah (special scroll with the 5 Books of Moses) is a...
@Scimonster Cool! I always wondered if I could do that. Thanks!
@RobertS.Barnes I don't know if there's a better way to do it, but if I was looking for it, I'd just scroll randomly and guess where it is; you should be able to find it after a bit of trial and error.
@MonicaCellio I know; @Scimonster and I have been fighting over who's listed higher on the list -- right now, he's taken the lead in our personal competition ;-)
Yeah. I went looking and found something that truly did deserve to be deleted, and got the hat thereby, but even if hats can be gamed I don't see the point of actually doing so.
@Scimonster it's "Jewish life", but it's pretty localized. On the other hand, haven't we had questions about finding camps, learning programs, and maybe other services in specific locations?
In mi yodeya, How can i make the link in my question/ answer open in a new tab/window when clicked on?
Probably i am asking in the wrong place.
What is the right place to ask?
Resolution
This hat encourages people to delete no-longer-relevant comments, which is good. However, it also encouraged them to remove their side of a conversation and then flag the other side for moderator handling. One comment at a time. All over the place. And only moderators can handle t...
The dawn of a new year, 2015, now approaches, or has already approached, either way it means that it is now time to reset our Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right s...
I apologise in advance if this is not the place to ask this question.
Is "reputation scoring" against the spirit of Pirkei Ovos 4 (5) "Rabbi Tzaddok would say: Do not make the Torah a crown to magnify yourself with, ...."
This is pretty innocuous, and I'm more asking out of curiosity, but I seem to have more reputation for the year than I have reputation total. Specifically at the time of this posting, 6012 total and 6032 for the year.
Month-by-month, I gained 15 reputation for the year over my total in January,...
In mi yodeya, How can i make the link in my question/ answer open in a new tab/window when clicked on?
Probably i am asking in the wrong place.
What is the right place to ask?
