Oct 28, 2020 13:42
@SteveTaylor well congrats and thanks for putting yourself forward :)
Oct 28, 2020 08:14
@Librarian Wow that was a close one!
Oct 25, 2020 08:43
anyway I've added my close vote
Oct 25, 2020 08:43
@curiousdannii I don't quite speak that language, but what I see is that the question is much more focussed on an idea, than on the text that has been referred to in passing.
Oct 24, 2020 20:52
does anyone still cast close votes on questions like this?
Oct 24, 2020 20:51
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Q: How do you forgive criminals while still punishing them?

JohnnyYou are meant to forgive others if you wish God to forgive you (Matthew 6:14-16), "77 times" (Matthew 18:21-22) if necessary, though the actual implication is you endlessly must forgive. But if your brother robs you, and you forgive him, and then he robs you again... forgiveness becomes highly ex...

Oct 22, 2020 05:04
@PrinceNorthLæraðr I posted my thoughts — I hope to come back and improve my answer for time to time (without radically changing it), because it's a big subject and easy to forget even quite important aspects!
Oct 20, 2020 22:02
Nice to meet you @Prince, hope to see you (and @Jon) around here more — I'll keep a tab open!
Oct 20, 2020 22:01
Speaking of which I just realised what the time is here, off to bed :)
Oct 20, 2020 22:00
I find the FaceBook UI incomprehensible
Oct 20, 2020 21:59
I actually didn't know FB was like that — I only joined a couple of years ago and have about 10 friends
Oct 20, 2020 21:58
but anything can be twisted…
Oct 20, 2020 21:58
that's certainly a devilish use of Twitter/FB
Oct 20, 2020 21:58
@JonEricson You mean for self-promotion in particular?
Oct 20, 2020 21:56
@PrinceNorthLæraðr something to mark it out a not a duplicate, maybe "What are the overarching tagging principles we want to apply here?"
Oct 20, 2020 21:55
@PrinceNorthLæraðr yes it is one extra piece in the puzzle for those who want to help, that's all
Oct 20, 2020 21:53
@PrinceNorthLæraðr I think there is probably room for a new, 'What is our tagging philosophy?' question that is actually asking for a broad overview of the philosophy/principles here
Oct 20, 2020 21:52
I couldn't disagree more!
Oct 20, 2020 21:51
Hello Jon :) I got here via Twitter in a roundabout way
Oct 20, 2020 21:49
The question title there seems a lot broader than the body
Oct 20, 2020 21:48
@PrinceNorthLæraðr which one?
Oct 20, 2020 21:47
I mean part of the underlying problem here is just tagging that most of us agree is bad but haven't got round to cleaning up
Oct 20, 2020 21:46
on a site like this we probably just need more passionate people who are engaged on Meta and manning the review queues :)
Oct 20, 2020 21:46
I just approve-voted both edits in the queue
Oct 20, 2020 21:46
sure
Oct 20, 2020 21:45
neither of those tags should be on that question
Oct 20, 2020 21:45
> Questions may refer to narratives unique to a gospel or shared between gospels.
Oct 20, 2020 21:44
> Questions about specific texts should only be tagged with the name of the text
Oct 20, 2020 21:42
@PrinceNorthLæraðr ask for them on meta and make all the election candidates answer ;)
Oct 20, 2020 21:42
@PrinceNorthLæraðr yuck
Oct 20, 2020 21:41
Are you a big fan of neat rules? There are always the edge cases and grey areas. It would be nice to have a list of principles on meta somewhere though, if that is what you mean.
Oct 20, 2020 21:38
you can have an end goal in mind but getting there is sometimes one step at a time :)
Oct 20, 2020 21:38
specific suggestions like these are really useful on meta — I think more useful than the "let's change everything" sort of posts which never get everyone behind them
Oct 20, 2020 21:37
ok we basically said the same thing there
Oct 20, 2020 21:36
they can search for questions tagged and — double barrelled tags are a code smell for me (except for book names)
Oct 20, 2020 21:34
and the slightly broader scope doesn't do any harm I think
Oct 20, 2020 21:34
I'd suggest instead of — part of the problem there is just unnecessary verbosity
Oct 20, 2020 21:32
though you spell prophecy differently to the BH way ;)
Oct 20, 2020 21:32
Now I definitely think you are making sense
Oct 20, 2020 21:28
so yes, maybe I agree with you a tag can be too narrow too
Oct 20, 2020 21:28
and 'watching' a tag like that would be fairly pointless
Oct 20, 2020 21:28
I guess a plain search for 'enoch' would be good enough if I was looking for them all
Oct 20, 2020 21:27
sure, but my point was going to be that I could ask two good questions about enoch and I think it would be worthy of a tag if I did — though it isn't a hill I'd want to die on
Oct 20, 2020 21:26
we currently have none for
Oct 20, 2020 21:26
well, you need at least two questions to have the tag for it not to disappear, which is not a very well known fact
Oct 20, 2020 21:24
I have my doubts about — very broad tags are inherently less useful than narrow ones IMO
Oct 20, 2020 21:24
not sure how many Qs actually have 5 tags though
Oct 20, 2020 21:24
@PrinceNorthLæraðr right so the tag limit plus prioritising the wrong tags
Oct 20, 2020 21:22
so which of the main 'usefulnesses' of tags is currently impaired by the tagging system here?
Oct 20, 2020 21:20
no wait, I like and that's entirely different!