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2:22 AM

judaism.stackexchange.com/search?q=lady and judaism.stackexchange.com/search?q=lady+user%3A200

Socio-linguistic note.

3:19 AM

@DoubleAA you can't really blame wfb. If I didn't know better, I'd also think t'was a PT q.

@HodofHod I don't mean to blame.

I don't think that had ever happened before, but you agree deletion was the right move? It technically answers the question, albeit very poorly.

3:44 AM

@DoubleAA Whoops! Didn't mean to imply that you did. I'm sorry.

@DoubleAA I agree. What would be the alternative, anyway?

@HodofHod letting people downvote till he self deletes or the community deletes through 3 votes of 20k+?

@DoubleAA Nah.

> Purim Torah answers are only permitted on Purim Torah questions, not on sincere questions.

If there were to be no PT policy, the answer would certainly be believable. Can you imagine people giving waffle and unicorn answers to SO qs?

We permitted a very limited use of such questions/answers. Any other use should be treated as it would on any SE site.

@HodofHod I can. They would be downvoted to oblivion and deleted by community fiat. We just don't have very many 20k+ users. Two are already mods, and two don't visit the site anymore.

@DoubleAA This too. But even if not, they would be deleted by mods for certain. And immediately followed by angry meta posts about the gun wielding monkey mods.

What I want to know is who upvoted it?

@HodofHod Two upvotes, in fact.

3:52 AM

@DoubleAA Oh, wow. I guess I can't complain: I got 2 upvotes too

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12:42 PM

@HodofHod @DoubleAA which question/answer are you guys discussing?

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3:04 PM

@IsaacMoses "(But there won't always be one.)" and possibly some other small changes.

@SethJ, I think we should add something like "Any word that is used very often on the site (that editors very often edit out in light of these guidelines, or that appears very commonly on the site despite these guidelines) should be in the glossary, and any such word that's in the glossary can be included in posts with a link to the glossary rather than in translation". Perhaps I'll post that suggestion as a separate question (or an answer here) and see what people think. Or you can feel free to write your own proposal, of course, if you wish. — msh210 58 secs ago

Incidentally, I just discovered the URL format /posts/comments/[number]. Dunno whether it's new or I merely never noticed it before. E.g. meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/posts/comments/5561

3:20 PM

@SethJ judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/18593/…

3:54 PM

@HodofHod Thanks.

4:09 PM

So according to this, everyone's going to ditch Mishna Berura for Aruch haShulchan in a couple years? — Double AA 13 hours ago

@DoubleAA ROFL

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5:32 PM

The disciplied badge goes to someone who "Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher."

it has been awareded 13 times on this site

@MonicaCellio meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/52/… Sorry: I'm not following.

What kind of post gets upvoted 3 times, but needs to be deleted

@Daniel not just gets upvotes 3 times: gets voted 3 more times than it gets downvoted: so it's a pretty good post actually.

@msh210, Yeah. That's what I mean. It must necessarily have been upvoted at least 3 times, so why would the OP delete it?

@Daniel To break his personal connection to what it says, perhaps?

5:36 PM

Actually @msh210, you have been awarded this badge. Do you remember what it was for?

@Daniel heheh, lemme check....

@Daniel I earned it for deleting a post which someone in the comments pointed out was inaccurate.

@DoubleAA hmm interesting. I wonder how it got the 3 upvotes, then.

@Daniel I guess three people besides me made the same mistake :)

I ordinarily try not to post inaccurate answers.

@Daniel one that the author realizes is incorrect (and not fixable), or (I've done this but not at +3) one that is weaker than a similar answer that I didn't see before (near-simultaneous posting).

@DoubleAA I think this is something we all strive for. :-) That doesn't mean we always get it right, though.

5:42 PM

I see, for some reason, I was thinking about "questions" instead of "posts"

@Daniel They're hard to find. I see two of my posts that got 3 net votes and that I deleted. (I stopped looking after I found two. There may be more.) One was a humorous answer to a serious question, and the other (to my discredit) made fun of another user.

I can see how someone could post an inaccurate answer

@msh210 the first part was a reply to a comment that's not there any more. The rest, um, I'm not sure any more. Sorry.

@Daniel see also judaism.stackexchange.com/badges/20

@msh210 yes I know that one. I think I have received it (possibly on Stack Overflow)

But that's about deleting bad posts

which is something that makes sense to do

5:49 PM

@Daniel Yeah. I was merely pointing it out.

Incidentally, I'm surprised my judaism.stackexchange.com/a/7538 got +12/-0 votes (even though it's not practical nowadays) and my judaism.stackexchange.com/a/7541 got +0/-2 (even though it is practical nowadays). I think the latter is a much more useful answer.

@msh210 I didn't vote on either. The first made me smile but, as you say, seems localized. The second doesn't solve the problem except for one-offs; it only delays and compounds it when repeated encounters force out the truth eventually.

@DoubleAA Very noble of you. :)

@msh210 Guess it was for this: judaism.stackexchange.com/a/7647/5

6:42 PM

@SethJ I guess so.

@MonicaCellio Well, yeah, it works for one-offs (as I say in the answer).