Did anyone else double check?

@YeZ I like that also....except that a PTIJ question of mine is currently tied for first :/

Now I know what it feels like to get a pro-tem mod email wink, wink ....had to turn it down though, as I don't have the time anymore....maybe a different time

To whover just gave me that upvote: thank you! ....now I have exactly 10,001 points! :D

@Shokhet Lemme go retract it then. :P

JK; Mazel Tov on your 10k!

@Scimonster I take it that was you, then? :)

@Scimonster Thanks! :)

@Shokhet AFAIK. Unless someone else upvoted you in the past minute.

@Scimonster Nope. Your vote was on my חכמת לב post?

@Shokhet Yup.

@Scimonster Then it was you. Thanks!! :D

@Shokhet You deserve it. :)

(the post currently has just one vote)

@Scimonster Thanks :)

....it shouldn't take you too long to catch up, especially since I'm not here every day anymore... ;-)

You're also doing pretty well with those repz :)

@Shokhet Mostly thanks to some HNQ PTIJ, and also a 250 point bounty from @IsaacMoses, i think.

We'll see how well i continue to do over the next month.

:)

What i need is to really learn the sources better. I suppose there's time. Right now i do gemara, parsha (with various commentaries), and Rambam.

@Scimonster That's not bad. ...learning some practical halacha (SA + MB, for instance) might be more helpful, both with daily living as well as with answering MY questions ;-)

@Shokhet Right. If most people are offline, and i feel there's a reasonable chance i could find the halacha in SA, i go looking. And i often go over the halachot of the chagim when they approach.

@Scimonster I have a seder in halacha....I really should change that to do hilchos chag as each one approaches....I always think of it when the chag is almost there :p

@Shokhet 30 days before the chag... (OC 429) ;)

@Scimonster Yup :)

.....last time I was in here (I think) welcome comments were under discussion. I think I found Alex's:

And i only know the source because @DannySchoemann posted it on his blog yesterday.

@Shokhet Wow, that was a while ago!

@Scimonster :)

@Scimonster Yup!

From the same post:

....speaking of 10k, I just spotted a deleted post that wasn't my own :)

ala @YeZ:

I made an edit here last night, but now i'm unsure whether part of it was correct. Is it only Chabad that does the kissing the Torah after the aliyah, or am i just misremembering?

@Shokhet Ooooooh.

I remember the first time i spotted a deleted post on SO... wait no, actually i don't. :P

@Shokhet What time is it by you anyways? Isn't it late?

(Or very early, i suppose.)

@Scimonster Yes :) ....i should probably go to sleep soon....

TZT!

TZT

@Shokhet yes, with 10k comes the power to see all the...stuff. :-) Congrats on 10k!

This guy spent 30 days answering questions on SO, with a goal of earning 3000 rep. He met his goal. Over the course of that, he received one downvote, and "This downvote haunted me for days." It's amazing how disproportionately potent downvotes are.

@IsaacMoses Interesting read; thanks for posting that!

@all: regarding the "please register" part of this post:

באתי רק לעורר

@Shokhet So it's unnecessary? Well, i guess our custom is from before that. :P

@Scimonster ....although Robert's own answer there endorses the question post, I'm not sure if that goes on the "please register" part also.

@IsaacMoses 1k, not 3. He still hasn't reached 1.5k, 2 years later. But he did earn Fanatic!

@Shokhet What processes? Anyone know? Are they as effective as the human touch? I dispute the notion that anything you conventionally put specifically in welcome comments is going to result in "really noisy fast," since it's inherently limited to once per user. And yes, most of the content of welcome comments is unrelated to the question, but as you point out, Robert endorsed posting such comments.

@IsaacMoses You could create a new account (unregistered) and try it out.

@Scimonster Oops. My mistake. Still, that represents 100 upvotes against the 1 downvote

@Shokhet I think that it's objectionable for him to levy such an admonishment on a beta site that's averaging 1.2K visits per day and less than 5 questions per day.

@IsaacMoses I also think the human touch is better, FWIW.

@IsaacMoses That's also true.....

....although I happen to know that they've finally gotten around to starting to choose pro-tem mods :)

@IsaacMoses @Scimonster:

@Shokhet Why not link to our Meta post with his answer?

@IsaacMoses I kinda did, by linking here....also, I haven't checked the timestamps....idk if he posted his answer before you added the "please register" comment template

....I don't have a lot of time at the moment; whoever wants to make these comments into an answer....

@Shokhet FWIW, an early form of "please register" was in the initial post

@IsaacMoses I see.

I gotta go; TZT!

@Shokhet TZT

@IsaacMoses Done:

Finally feel like myself!

@Scimonster who is that? :-)

FYI, I used us as a good example here:

@MonicaCellio Nicely done.

@Scimonster Now you just have to live with a month's worth of comments addressed to "cnsersmoit" all over the site.

@IsaacMoses thanks.

@Scimonster Except now i've gotten so used to the icon full of hats that i sometimes don't recognize my own avatar!

@HodofHod judaism.stackexchange.com/a/56304/2

Quite a few have, actually.

... but @DoubleAA posted that comment only 3.5 days after Jon Skeet posted his question. Let's see if anyone posted a first question and earned a Good Question badge (+25) within 4 days ...

I don't think we can tell how soon the post made it to +22, but we can see when the user who posted a first question that eventually made it to +25 earned their Good Question badge. It turns out that even though Jon Skeet made it to +22 within the first few days, it took 95 days until he finally made it to +25. Only one first poster has beaten that record:

What about first answers? We have only one first-answer Good Answer so far: Aaron Shaffier on Is there "Torah Inerrancy"?. That post took 391 days to get there , though.

Oh, wait. We can see votes, just at a 1-day resolution, and not by who cast them ...

OK here's first question by 4-day score. Jon Skeet, with 22, still is second only to ESultanik, with 31

New link for the previous query

@IsaacMoses How did it get so high? That's (by far) my highest scoring answer.