I know practically nothing about modern Judaism, and most of what I know about ancient Judaism comes from my Christian (Jehovah's Witness) upbringing, and is probably wildly inaccurate.
Also, I find theology boring.
But I still browse the site sometimes, and find the detailed minutia interesting.
Kalashnikover_Rebbe at hashkafah.com asks:
Isn't blocking ads stealing??? The people put them on the sites for a reason....
He elaborates:
On one hand the argument can be made that [forum XYZ] is PUBLICLY broadcast and distributed and what YOU do with it once it hits your PC is your own...
I don't use ad-blocker software. I think it's unethical.
I do, however, use software which blocks third-party content.
(NoScript and RequestPolicy Firefox extensions, in case you're interested.)
I use this software primarily for security reasons.
It has the incidental effect of blocking the vast majority of ads.
I think that makes a difference. Does your halacha think it makes a difference?
That's not a question to answer here in chat. It's a question to answer on the site.
The question to answer here in chat is: How should this question be phrased on the site, given that I don't actually care about the answer? The question is provoked only by mild curiosity.
@TRiG If you have curiosity, however mild, it seems you do care about the answer :-) In any event, why not word as if your curiosity were stronger? Or why not word it as you just did, above?
@msh210 Well, I'm curious to know the answer, but I don't care what the answer actually is, since I have no intention of ruling my life by it one way or t'other.
Sure, I'll ask a question worded roughly as above. Some time later today.
@DoubleAA I don't see that it's an answer to "Is one allowed to go to a stand up comedy show?". Not laughing fully doesn't mean not laughing at all, does it?
@DoubleAA it might be an answer to "Comedy and Jewish Life": the question seeks any source for comedy, and the SA says only not to laugh fully. Weak.
@DoubleAA I didn't say we are unable to. I just don't think that someone's watching a performance at a comedy club necessarily implies that he'll do so.
...or even that he needs to worry that he'll do so.
@DoubleAA Isn't what I just said roughly the same as:
As it is now the answer is "It depends which comedy club." If you want a different answer please [edit] the question. Otherwise I will post that as the correct answer. — Double AA20 hours ago
or an instance of it, anyway? If the comedy club fills your mouth with laughter, it's a problem; otherwise, no.
@All:
Please suggest changes to this proposal, perhaps in answers. The more input, the better we can fine-tune the proposal. — msh21024 hours ago
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@MonicaCellio re the comments - I was replying to your saying that the announcement should link to that question, saying that it already did so by linking to election
@msh210, I suspect that some good mod candidates will be reluctant to self-nominate. Any thoughts on the best way to have that discussion since we can't nominate others?
@msh210 chat could work but yeah, might be a little harder to dig through than answers on the meta post. On the other hand, the meta post is more ostensibly "public" and could seem to be applying pressure?
@msh210 oh right; the ping-ee will get a direct link to the comment. (I was thinking he'd just get a "you were mentioned in chat" message for some reason.)
@DoubleAA The fact that most of that text is the same as our announcement, but ours doesn't list the badges, suggests to me that that's an SO-specific requirement since they're so huge.
Often times I hear the argument that marriage is between a man and a woman, God made them male and female, (adam and eve not adam and steve ..etc).
My question is for those who do not fit into the gender boxes we like people to fit into.
In fact there are many variations of gender between the pol...
@msh210 No fair :( There was never a reason for me to suggest it til now.
In other news: correct me if I'm wrong but I don't see the flag queue getting unbearably long anytime soon, so is this going to be our first and last election?
@DoubleAA Well, an announcement was made in chat that there'd be elections after Shavuos.
@DoubleAA SE decides when they are. (Likewise, only SE can answer your other question.) But I imagine as the site grows we may need more mods. Looks at SO for example. :-)
(Even questions only SE can answer should be raised on Meta. Someone from SE will see them there. (A mod will make sure of that.))
Over on Stack Overflow, there are badge requirements for nomination to be moderator including Civic Duty, Strunk & White, Deputy and Convention (source). These requirements are designed to ensure that nominees have a correct understanding for the policies and style of the site.
Obviously imp...
If one is elected moderator, how long is his term?
I know on Stack Overflow the terms are for life (source). However, they also routinely add new moderators because of their ever growing need for more people to handle the flag queue.
Does the fact that on Mi Yodeya we probably won't desperately...
@DoubleAA Community gets the credit for various processes done by SE staff/scripts (mostly scripts). Presumably they decided to let this be one of them. Nothing deep or significant in this, i don't think.
Kalashnikover_Rebbe at hashkafah.com asks:
Isn't blocking ads stealing??? The people put them on the sites for a reason....
He elaborates:
On one hand the argument can be made that [forum XYZ] is PUBLICLY broadcast and distributed and what YOU do with it once it hits your PC is your own...
Is there a feature of the site that enables hosting documents in order to prevent the loss of source material to dead links?
If not, could there be?
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