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Welcome to the Judaism community on Codidact!

Will you help us build our community of learners? Drop into our study hall, ask questions, help others with answers to their questions, share a d'var torah if you're so inclined, invite your friends, and join us in building this community together. Not an ask-the-rabbi service, just people at all levels learning together.

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One of the key features of Codidact is Categories. There has been some discussion elsewhere, but now that the community is up & running, Meta is the place to talk about this. Two suggestions I know of so far:

  • Divrei Torah

I think this should be Post only (i.e., like Q without the A) but allow comments, editing, etc.

  • Purim Torah

This should be full Q&A. One key item to decide is whether this should be open for new questions all the time or limited to "close to Purim".

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I propose a category called "Sandbox".

People can post questions and answers here to practice using mixed Hebrew and English, get used to the bilingual tags, make and check Sefaria links, and engage experimentally with any future cool Codidact or Judaism-specific features.

It could also be used to collaboratively edit drafts of complex posts that are not ready for a general audience.

Sandbox posts are:

  • auto-deleted after 14 days of inactivity
  • excluded from site search results (internal and external)
  • excluded from reputation
  • lightly moderated only to prevent obvious abuse

When posting to the sandbox, a huge disclaimer comes up so people understand that they are not posting to the "real" site.

(Yes, this would be a useful general feature, but the challenges of Hebrew/ English make it seem most useful here.)

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-1 I like the idea but I think it shouldn't be here at the Judaism but rather at https://meta.codidact.com/ No reason Hebrew couldn't be used there too. Please suggest it there!

manassehkatz‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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I think something along the lines of (but definitely a bit different) SE's "this is a new user, be nice" is really all we need. For a new but serious user, it really doesn't take long to get the hang of how to properly ask a question. The non-serious user isn't going to bother with a sandbox - they just jump right in with "Do my homework" or "read my spam". The serious user will figure it out quickly enough if we treat them reasonably well.

manassehkatz‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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That is not to say there isn't a place for Sandbox - if we ever have Code Golf, that absolutely needs a Sandbox, because of the need to get a question nearly perfect before anyone starts Replying. But that is not the case in Judaism or most other Codidact communities.

msh210‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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I like the idea of a sandbox but I think one post should suffice for it. Or one question and its answers and comments, let's say. So it can be in our meta category.

manassehkatz‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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"One question and its answers" for Sandbox was the only way to do it on SE. I didn't like it there, and I don't like the idea of doing it that way here. Categories are a much cleaner way to do this on a community where sandbox makes sense.

msh210‭ wrote over 4 years ago · edited over 4 years ago
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@manassehkatz re your last comment: I agree that if we're to have a Code Golf SE -type sandbox then it should be a category of posts. (But I don't think we need one.) My "one post should suffice for it" comment was about the kind of sandbox described in part of this answer: one used for trying out formatting, etc.