@Jin Thanks, got it. Making a transparent version right now.

@NeilFein, can you see on this page whether the user is a registered or an unregistered user? How?

(I can see, but I don't know whether that's because I'm a diamond mod.)

Yeah, I can see.

(I'm a mod in chat, but not on MY.)

(almost typed "JLL".)

@NeilFein Okay, thanks. How: because it says "Unregistered" in big letters across the top?

@NeilFein :-)

Exactly.

@NeilFein Thanks.

You're welcome!

Hmmm... contradiction-resolution

@msh210 Just about to post that!

Does it apply to too many of our questions to make it a worthwhile tag?

@msh210 Can you mod-ping him to stop while we discuss? It's potentially a lot of flooding on the main page

pitron stirot

חבל שלא דברתי על משיח

@AdamMosheh We were just taking about you.

@AdamMosheh tagS? plural?

sorry about those deleted posts

@AdamMosheh eh?

Singular.

Is that a good idea for a question tag?

@AdamMosheh (you know you can edit for a few minutes after you post something in chat by pushing the 'up' key)

@msh210 I suspect yes, it does.

what is mod-ping

Also, is there value in it? Would someone want to sort all the questions that are contradictions, as opposed to just quesitons?

Sure

@AdamMosheh I can ping you (make you get a notification in the top-left corner of an SE page), notifying you of a new message addressed to you in chat, even if you haven't been here recently.

@AdamMosheh Why?

@msh210 - is that the noise that i just heard twice?

@AdamMosheh If you click hover your mouse cursor over a message here, an arrow will appear at its lower-right-hand corner. Click that, and yoru next post here will be addressed as a reply to that message. That's what I'm doing hereby, and you'll hear a noise.

That's regular old pinging.

So is @AdamMosheh.

@msh210 Like this?

What DoubleAA called mod pinginng is different, and only mods can do it.

Did you hear a buzz come out of your computer speakers just now??

@AdamMosheh Yes. The advantage si that then people knpw what you're replying to -- I highly recommend it

@AdamMosheh No: they're off. I would have, though.

But otherwise would you? P.s. this is getting kinda annoying. But I forgive you.

@DoubleAA Yes, these are questions addressed to Eliyahu Hanavi who will come in the future and resolve them himself. That is the meaning behind TEIKU the acronym.

It's useful because everyone can then see what I reply to. (Hover over any of my messages, and the one I reply to will light up; also, the left-hand-side of mine has an arrow pointing (when you click it) to the message it's in reply to.) It avoid ambiguity that way.

@AdamMosheh I suspect he'll be able to findd the contradictions even if we don't tag them.

@msh210 I was able to find them pretty easily. I just searched contradictions and those questions came up.

Sorry, I'm used to clicking in reply -- and as I say it's useful. Maybe turn your speakers down?

@msh210 Done. I g2g

@AdamMosheh "meaning behind the TEIKU acronym": I think you're confusing the chicken and the egg.

@msh210 It is indeed useful. It gets my attention which is the point

@DoubleAA That's another issue.....

@DoubleAA Explain

@AdamMosheh Teku means "let it stand": i.e., it weill remain unresolved. The acronym is a nice bit of d'rash.

@msh210 LIterally it does mean that. I tend to forget that

@msh210 But isn't that acronym kind of the whole point?

@msh210 I always assumed from the root ק-ו-ם but an Aramiacist will probably know better

like תקום

@AdamMosheh Not that I know of. Wait.... if you don't mind..... the tag on questions? You think its benefit is that Eliyahu will be able to find them?

@DoubleAA I've always guessed it's related to ka. But I have no idea tbh

Nobody here seems sure about the Aramaic grammar. But everyone seems to believe in the acronym w/ Eliyahu

@DoubleAA haprozdor.blogspot.com/2006/08/teiku.html FWIW

@AdamMosheh I don't 'believe' in it. (I'm not really sure what that even means in this context.)

@DoubleAA Why did this post get a star? What is it referring to

@msh210 ברוך שכיונתי

@ShmuelBrin When will the name of the chat room be decided?

@AdamMosheh When I last checked, earlier today, three choices were tied for first in votes.

@AdamMosheh It's a Modern Hebrew (?) version of "speak of the devil". I said it because you came in to chat as we were talking about you. As for why it's starred? I assume someone thought it was rather funny.

@msh210 Which three?

@AdamMosheh See for yourself: meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/q/1032/759

@DoubleAA I think it's dibarti, not davarti.

@AdamMosheh I used a chirik chaseir. (Chaseir here means invisible ie not even the regular dot.)

@DoubleAA I know

@DoubleAA Chaseir doesn't mean the chirik is invisible, it means that the letter yud is invisible.

@AdamMosheh In this case, Tarti Mashma!

@DoubleAA Obviously. But I was taught not to omit the yud unless I wrote in the chirik...

@AdamMosheh I hope you didn't learn that when studying safrus!

@DoubleAA meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/1032/… better link @AdamMosheh

@msh210 Obviously not in regards to p'sukeem!!

@msh210 It's tied between The Beit Midrash and V'dibarta Bam. But there are others that are close.

@msh210 Is this in scope? judaism.stackexchange.com/q/16232/759

I inserted the pictures because they looked valid enough.

@msh210 I really like Tarbeh Sichah

@DoubleAA but slightly more positive. The Jewish version of "speak of the devil" is singing "vayovo-o-o-o...."

@HodofHod 'Hoping for Mashiach' is not Jewish enough for you?

What is everyone's favorite idea to name the new chat room?

@DoubleAA Oh, it's Jewish, I just don't think it has the same connotation as "speak of the devil".

@DoubleAA I commented. Thanks for the heads-up.

@DoubleAA I tagged it as riddle.

@AdamMosheh ??

@HodofHod Adarabba! "speak of the devil" has no negative connotations, while singing vayavoooo does. Maybe you meant to say denotation?

@AdamMosheh Vote on the meta answers: nothing we say here overrides that anyway.

@DoubleAA What is the pasook that is circumscribed around the magen david?

@AdamMosheh What makes you think it is a pasuk?

@AdamMosheh Why?

@DoubleAA I can't tell. It is hard to read. I would assume that this is a Jewish artifact of some sort. Because it is Kabbalistic doesn't mean that it isn't Jewish.

@msh210 Because it is a puzzle.

@AdamMosheh By that token (no punintended) every question is a riddle.

@AdamMosheh see judaism.stackexchange.com/tags/riddle/info

@DoubleAA Whoops. yes, denotation is what I meant. I haven't heard vayavooo used to be actually insulting, any more than "speak of the devil" is. It's a good deal funnier, imo, though

@msh210 Lol. Was the pun seriously not intended?

I'm retagging it mysticism-kabbabah

@AdamMosheh yes

@msh210 So I see that you untagged it.

@AdamMosheh yep. See judaism.stackexchange.com/tags/riddle/info for what questions the 'riddle' tag is for

@msh210 Great

@AdamMosheh I meant no offense... anyone (with enough points) can edit any post any time. I really thought that that was the wrong tag, so I edited accordingly.

@msh210 OK.

I wonder... The (reverse?) side with the magen David has what looks like:

(with the he and shin in the middle stretching from the top middle yod to the bottom between the middle 2 letters)

If the samech is supposed to be a mem (not farfetched I don't think)

then the top might be YKVK with an extra yod in the middle

the bottom might be Elokim without the yod

and the top-middle yod plus the next two letters going down would form a Hebraized IHS

@msh210 Generally, if in doubt, the side of a coin with the larger scale image will be called the obverse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obverse

@DoubleAA Thanks. Here only one side has an image; the top picture has larger letters, though. So I don't know.

@msh210 Hmm, keep in mind that the left-most character on the top is actually a ches

although, if you're assuming the samech is a mem...

@HodofHod Oh, I didn't see that.

@HodofHod True.

@Verbeia Thanks!

@Verbeia Thank you! (Incidentally, non-Jewish people are, and have been, welcome in our community, so don't feel like an outsider! Come on in and ask a question or two! :D)

All: Look forward to a Shavuos-related blog post on cooking.blogoverflow.com