I wonder who advertised judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/14142/…. It has so many views.

@MonicaCellio Excellent question. I think the only real objection to word-synonym tags is that they're neither necessary (because we can synonymize) not The SE Way. (If there was another objection, I can't remember it at the moment.) Is that enough of a reason to get rid of them? I'm not sure. Is it enough of a reason to not make new ones? I think so. But in a case where either word alone would be ambiguous, then I agree we should have two. What do you think?

@msh210 Dunno but yeyasher kochachem to you and to @HodofHod for recent Announcer badges.

@msh210 ... It has 274 views now, none of which are due to my pitching it. However, I just now posted it to reddit, because it is, after all, good stuff. So, some of the ones after 274 will, B"H, be mine.

@msh210 I think that Dori thought they were confusing for some reason, but I never understood her argument.

@IsaacMoses that badge was a complete surprise to me. I share links to various interesting and unanswered questions every once in a while. I shared that one over a month ago. If they hadn't removed the time requirements from the badge i never would have gotten it.

@HodofHod Care to share where you like to share links?

@IsaacMoses Facebook, usually. Google+ once or twice. 'Fraid I haven't got enough Jewish friends on the latter service to share links there very often.

@HodofHod Thanks. You must have a good number of FB friends who are interested in your posts.

@IsaacMoses 25 since december 28th? unfortunately not that much. Seems most of my fb friends just want to post pictures with funny captions. I mostly use G+ these days. More actual information there.

@HodofHod My FB posts don't do nearly as well. Maybe I'm a below-average social networker.

@IsaacMoses Maybe your friends have lives. just kidding......

@IsaacMoses btw, what happened to your G+ profile? I can't find it anymore. Maybe that's the source of your social networking woes....

@HodofHod I have no woes, B"H.

@HodofHod My profile is at plus.google.com/114439949149354943739/posts . Is it not visible to you?

@IsaacMoses I can see it

Strange, it didn't come up in search plus.google.com/s/isaac%20moses/people

@HodofHod Aha! It was set to "Profile not visible in search." I've unset that now. It'll probably take some time to make it into the search index.

@HodofHod ... I take that back. It's there now.

@IsaacMoses oh, ok. It's actually thanks to you that I have stack exchange and joel spolsky in my circles. Creepy, huh?

@HodofHod Not sure how that's creepy.

@IsaacMoses, Idk, I always found the idea of unknown persons reading my posts unnerving. Then again, I guess that's to be expected when one shares their posts publicly. I take it back. Not creepy at all. :-D

@HodofHod You get to choose which circles you share with, right?

@IsaacMoses of course

@IsaacMoses btw, I just noticed after editing the "tzitzis" tag, that the definition it has doesn't apply to its synonym, "tallis katan". thoughts? change the tag definition? un-synonymize the tags?

@HodofHod Yeah, I guess I'd remove that synonym. I'm trying to figure out if I can do that.

... OK done.

judaism.stackexchange.com/tags/tzitzis/synonyms

@IsaacMoses did you delete the tallis katan tag?

@HodofHod I deleted the synonym

... I guess that was the only existence of the tag

because it's gone, too

so perhaps there were no questions with that tag, because I don't see it anymore

whoops

@HodofHod I don't think it had an independent existence

beat me to it

If someone wants to resurrect it by going through and adding it to questions to which it applies, that's fine.

although looking at judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tzitzis I see many questions that don't fit the "tzitzis" tag as such, and instead fit the "tallis katan" tag

@HodofHod Well, anything about the tallit katan is also about tzitzit, in a general sense, if not necessarily about the strings themselves.

... but feel free to re-tag if you see fit. I have no objection to splitting the two, with tzitzit only on questions about the strings

@IsaacMoses ok, that's going to need some serious retagging, i think

judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/11302/… judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/6485/… judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/12810/…

BTW, what's your opinion on Purim Torah? I'm surprised that no one's made the case to forbid, and I'm wondering if shetika is indeed kehoda-a. (If we go another couple of days without dissent, I think I'll codify the current opinion on the table.)

judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/6485/… would be both, I think.

@IsaacMoses I rather like the idea of it, but I am concerned that it might get out of control. Some close moderation might be necessary.

@IsaacMoses True

@HodofHod Are there guidelines you'd add other than the ones already expressed on meta, or would you basically leave it up to people's and mods' common sense? Does Adar 1 - 17 sound right to you?

@IsaacMoses I like monica's answer as it is now. I previously upvoted it, and would like to see it implemented. The disclaimer is a very good idea

@HodofHod Well, like I said, that most likely is what will get implemented. I think we'll be able to handle the necessary modding.

@IsaacMoses ok then, I'm all for it. I heard an interesting story about purim torah once, if your interested...

@HodofHod Please go ahead.

@IsaacMoses There's a rather well-known Rosh Yeshiva in LA that I was told this story about, but I have no idea if it's true or not, so I won't say his name. Story goes, that when he was a bochur in yeshiva, they had a tradition that every year, one bochur would be appointed to give a good purim torah. That year they picked this Rosh Yeshiva.

He made his way up to the shtender in the front of the beis medrash, where he proceeded to quote a Rambam and then asked question on it. He then built a huge pilpul on top of this whole thing. He spoke for 45 minutes, darshaning this way and that, and at the end he just finished up and walked off.

So the other bochurim grab him and say "Where was the Purim Torah???"

He replied, "the purim torah?? There's no such Rambam"

@HodofHod :) Sounds like it's a good thing he devoted that mind to the forces of Good most of the time.

@IsaacMoses B"H, yes he does....

anyway, it's wayyyy passed my bedtime, so I've got to go. Be well.

@HodofHod You too Shavu'a Tov.

@IsaacMoses Shavua tov

@IsaacMoses, I unwittingly reverted your edit to judaism.stackexchange.com/a/4269. That is, I reverted it wittingly; I unwitted that it was yours.

@msh210 I just approved it.

@IsaacMoses Yeah, that's what I meant. On another note, what do you think of the following?

"I heard a few things this past shabbat" is I suppose a basis for a question (though it'd be much improved if he'd include in the question what he heard this past shabas), but the "and learn this sugya together" is making me reach [cont'd]

[cont'd] for the "This question is not a good fit to our Q&A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion." button. Pinging @adam too.

@msh210 I've commented and edited.

@msh210 I'm unsure. On the one hand, SE provides a mechanism (synonyms) so we should follow that. On the other hand, if we can teach someone the Hebrew for what he typed in English by having it show up right there in the tags list, is that enough reason to leave the tags as they are? Or do only a few beginners do that and they'll learn soon enough anyway so don't sweat it? As I said, it wasn't a strongly-held opinion. :-)

@IsaacMoses Ah, I was wondering why all those tzitzit/talit questions showed up this morning. :-)