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DonielF‭ · 2020-09-11T02:42:09Z (over 3 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every <strike>Tuesday</strike> Thursday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by which post has the highest score; lower-ranked posts which are seasonally relevant may be considered instead, but there is no guarantee that it will take precedence.
To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): [Three Weeks/Nine Days](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276782)
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): [Medicine and Medicinal Ethics](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276892)
- 8-14 Av (July 29-August 4): [Beis HaMikdash](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276978)
- 15-21 Av (August 5-11): [Sefer Devarim](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277081)
- 22-28 Av (August 12-18): [Shabbos Songs/Zemiros](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277247)
- 29 Av-5 Elul (August 19-25): [Shemoneh Esrei](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277369)
- 6-14 Elul (August 26-September 3): [Lashon Hara](https://judaism.codidact.com/articles/277512)
- 15-21 Elul (September 4-10): [Rabbi Steinsaltz z"l](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277910)
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.
V1.3: Removed seasonal boost factor.
V1.4: Reset on Thursdays, not Tuesdays.

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every <strike>Tuesday</strike> Thursday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by which post has the highest score; lower-ranked posts which are seasonally relevant may be considered instead, but there is no guarantee that it will take precedence.
To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): [Three Weeks/Nine Days](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276782)
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): [Medicine and Medicinal Ethics](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276892)
- 8-14 Av (July 29-August 4): [Beis HaMikdash](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276978)
- 15-21 Av (August 5-11): [Sefer Devarim](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277081)
- 22-28 Av (August 12-18): [Shabbos Songs/Zemiros](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277247)
- 29 Av-5 Elul (August 19-25): [Shemoneh Esrei](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277369)
- 6-14 Elul (August 26-September 3): [Lashon Hara](https://judaism.codidact.com/articles/277512)
- 15-21 Elul (September 4-10): [Rabbi Steinsaltz z"l](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277910)
- 22-28 Elul (September 11-17): [Shofar](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/278026)
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.
V1.3: Removed seasonal boost factor.
V1.4: Reset on Thursdays, not Tuesdays.

#18: Post edited by

DonielF‭ · 2020-09-04T00:28:23Z (over 3 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by which post has the highest score; lower-ranked posts which are seasonally relevant may be considered instead, but there is no guarantee that it will take precedence.
To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): [Three Weeks/Nine Days](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276782)
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): [Medicine and Medicinal Ethics](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276892)
- 8-14 Av (July 29-August 4): [Beis HaMikdash](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276978)
- 15-21 Av (August 5-11): [Sefer Devarim](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277081)
- 22-28 Av (August 12-18): [Shabbos Songs/Zemiros](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277247)
- 29 Av-5 Elul (August 19-25): [Shemoneh Esrei](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277369)
~~- 6-12 Elul (August 26-September 1): [Lashon Hara](https://judaism.codidact.com/articles/277512)~~
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.
~~V1.3: Removed seasonal boost factor.~~

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every <strike>Tuesday</strike> Thursday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by which post has the highest score; lower-ranked posts which are seasonally relevant may be considered instead, but there is no guarantee that it will take precedence.
To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): [Three Weeks/Nine Days](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276782)
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): [Medicine and Medicinal Ethics](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276892)
- 8-14 Av (July 29-August 4): [Beis HaMikdash](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276978)
- 15-21 Av (August 5-11): [Sefer Devarim](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277081)
- 22-28 Av (August 12-18): [Shabbos Songs/Zemiros](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277247)
- 29 Av-5 Elul (August 19-25): [Shemoneh Esrei](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277369)
- 6-14 Elul (August 26-September 3): [Lashon Hara](https://judaism.codidact.com/articles/277512)
- 15-21 Elul (September 4-10): [Rabbi Steinsaltz z"l](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277910)
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.
V1.3: Removed seasonal boost factor.
V1.4: Reset on Thursdays, not Tuesdays.

#17: Post edited by

DonielF‭ · 2020-08-26T15:33:01Z (over 3 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by which post has the highest score; lower-ranked posts which are seasonally relevant may be considered instead, but there is no guarantee that it will take precedence.
To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): [Three Weeks/Nine Days](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276782)
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): [Medicine and Medicinal Ethics](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276892)
- 8-14 Av (July 29-August 4): [Beis HaMikdash](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276978)
- 15-21 Av (August 5-11): [Sefer Devarim](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277081)
- 22-28 Av (August 12-18): [Shabbos Songs/Zemiros](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277247)
- 29 Av-5 Elul (August 19-25): [Shemoneh Esrei](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277369)
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.
V1.3: Removed seasonal boost factor.

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by which post has the highest score; lower-ranked posts which are seasonally relevant may be considered instead, but there is no guarantee that it will take precedence.
To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): [Three Weeks/Nine Days](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276782)
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): [Medicine and Medicinal Ethics](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276892)
- 8-14 Av (July 29-August 4): [Beis HaMikdash](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276978)
- 15-21 Av (August 5-11): [Sefer Devarim](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277081)
- 22-28 Av (August 12-18): [Shabbos Songs/Zemiros](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277247)
- 29 Av-5 Elul (August 19-25): [Shemoneh Esrei](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277369)
- 6-12 Elul (August 26-September 1): [Lashon Hara](https://judaism.codidact.com/articles/277512)
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.
V1.3: Removed seasonal boost factor.

#16: Post edited by

DonielF‭ · 2020-08-19T20:01:29Z (over 3 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by which post has the highest score; lower-ranked posts which are seasonally relevant may be considered instead, but there is no guarantee that it will take precedence.
To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): [Three Weeks/Nine Days](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276782)
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): [Medicine and Medicinal Ethics](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276892)
- 8-14 Av (July 29-August 4): [Beis HaMikdash](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276978)
- 15-21 Av (August 5-11): [Sefer Devarim](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277081)
- 22-28 Av (August 12-18): [Shabbos Songs/Zemiros](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277247)
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.
V1.3: Removed seasonal boost factor.

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by which post has the highest score; lower-ranked posts which are seasonally relevant may be considered instead, but there is no guarantee that it will take precedence.
To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): [Three Weeks/Nine Days](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276782)
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): [Medicine and Medicinal Ethics](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276892)
- 8-14 Av (July 29-August 4): [Beis HaMikdash](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276978)
- 15-21 Av (August 5-11): [Sefer Devarim](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277081)
- 22-28 Av (August 12-18): [Shabbos Songs/Zemiros](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277247)
- 29 Av-5 Elul (August 19-25): [Shemoneh Esrei](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277369)
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.
V1.3: Removed seasonal boost factor.

#15: Post edited by

DonielF‭ · 2020-08-12T18:51:15Z (over 3 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by which post has the highest score; lower-ranked posts which are seasonally relevant may be considered instead, but there is no guarantee that it will take precedence.
To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): [Three Weeks/Nine Days](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276782)
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): [Medicine and Medicinal Ethics](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276892)
- 8-14 Av (July 29-August 4): [Beis HaMikdash](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276978)
- 15-21 Av (August 5-11): [Sefer Devarim](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277081)
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.
V1.3: Removed seasonal boost factor.

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by which post has the highest score; lower-ranked posts which are seasonally relevant may be considered instead, but there is no guarantee that it will take precedence.
To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): [Three Weeks/Nine Days](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276782)
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): [Medicine and Medicinal Ethics](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276892)
- 8-14 Av (July 29-August 4): [Beis HaMikdash](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276978)
- 15-21 Av (August 5-11): [Sefer Devarim](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277081)
- 22-28 Av (August 12-18): [Shabbos Songs/Zemiros](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277247)
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.
V1.3: Removed seasonal boost factor.

#14: Post edited by

DonielF‭ · 2020-08-05T20:32:29Z (over 3 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
~~- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).~~
~~- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25~~
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
~~- To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.~~
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): [Three Weeks/Nine Days](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276782)
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): [Medicine and Medicinal Ethics](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276892)
- 8-14 Av (July 29-August 4): [Beis HaMikdash](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276978)
- 15-21 Av (August 5-11): [Sefer Devarim](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277081)
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
~~V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.~~

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by which post has the highest score; lower-ranked posts which are seasonally relevant may be considered instead, but there is no guarantee that it will take precedence.
To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): [Three Weeks/Nine Days](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276782)
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): [Medicine and Medicinal Ethics](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276892)
- 8-14 Av (July 29-August 4): [Beis HaMikdash](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276978)
- 15-21 Av (August 5-11): [Sefer Devarim](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277081)
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.
V1.3: Removed seasonal boost factor.

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DonielF‭ · 2020-08-05T00:03:13Z (over 3 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
- To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
~~- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): Three Weeks/Nine Days~~
~~- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): Medicine and Medicinal Ethics~~
~~- 8-14 Av (July 29-August 4): Beis HaMikdash~~
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
- To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): [Three Weeks/Nine Days](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276782)
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): [Medicine and Medicinal Ethics](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276892)
- 8-14 Av (July 29-August 4): [Beis HaMikdash](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/276978)
- 15-21 Av (August 5-11): [Sefer Devarim](https://judaism.codidact.com/ar/277081)
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.

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DonielF‭ · 2020-07-29T17:29:38Z (over 3 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
- To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): Three Weeks/Nine Days
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): Medicine and Medicinal Ethics
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
- To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): Three Weeks/Nine Days
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): Medicine and Medicinal Ethics
- 8-14 Av (July 29-August 4): Beis HaMikdash
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.

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DonielF‭ · 2020-07-22T18:29:27Z (over 3 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
- To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): Three Weeks/Nine Days
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): Medicine in Halacha
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
- To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): Three Weeks/Nine Days
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): Medicine and Medicinal Ethics
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.

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DonielF‭ · 2020-07-22T18:28:47Z (over 3 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
- To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): Three Weeks/Nine Days
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
- To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): Three Weeks/Nine Days
- 1-7 Av (July 22-28): Medicine in Halacha
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.

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DonielF‭ · 2020-07-16T02:24:36Z (almost 4 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): Three Weeks/Nine Days
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
~~V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted.~~

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
- To reduce clutter, submissions which have been selected for a current or previous challenge will be deleted from this thread.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): Three Weeks/Nine Days
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted. Added clean-up for selected submissions.

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DonielF‭ · 2020-07-16T02:22:30Z (almost 4 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
~~- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): Three Weeks~~
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted.

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): Three Weeks/Nine Days
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted.

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 15-21): [Not yet chosen]
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted.

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 16-21): Three Weeks
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted.

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DonielF‭ · 2020-07-16T02:06:57Z (almost 4 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
~~- Every post is given a score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).~~
~~- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.5.~~
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (3/2)(5/8)=93.75%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (3/2)(1/4)=37.5%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 15-21): [Not yet chosen]
---
Revision history:
~~V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.~~

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a base score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.25
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (5/4)(5/8)=78.13%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (5/4)(1/4)=31.25%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 15-21): [Not yet chosen]
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.
V1.2: Adjusted seasonally relevant boost factor to slow how quickly answers are boosted.

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DonielF‭ · 2020-07-15T02:10:12Z (almost 4 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
~~1. Every post is given a score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).~~
~~2. Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.5.~~
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (3/2)(5/8)=93.75%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (3/2)(1/4)=37.5%.
3. After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 15-21): [Not yet chosen]
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
- Every post is given a score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
- Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.5.
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (3/2)(5/8)=93.75%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (3/2)(1/4)=37.5%.
- After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 15-21): [Not yet chosen]
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.

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DonielF‭ · 2020-07-14T15:01:03Z (almost 4 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
1. Any subject matter relevant to the time of year (ex. "Four Species" being suggested around Sukkos time, or "Amalek" being suggested the week of Parshas Ki Seitzei) receives higher priority. This higher priority only applies to topics where the event they're relevant to occurs during the week of that topic challenge.
2. Of those higher-priority submissions (or all submissions, if none receive higher priority), the one with the highest answer score (calculated with an extra upvote to account for the person submitting it in favor of the topic) will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge.
3. In the event of a tie, I'll pick one at random.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
~~- 23-29 Tammuz (July 15-21): [Not yet chosen]~~

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
1. Every post is given a score of (upvotes+2)/(total votes+3).
2. Every suggestion which is relevant to an event occurring during the upcoming week will have its score boosted by a factor of 1.5.
*Example:* A suggestion about the Four Species receives three upvotes and two downvotes. Normally its score would be 5/8=62.5%. If Sukkos falls out during the upcoming week, its score is boosted to (3/2)(5/8)=93.75%.
*Example:* A suggestion about the laws of bathrooms in Judaism receives five downvotes and no upvotes. Normally its score would be 1/4=25.0%. If the coming week's Torah portion is Ki Teitzei, which references the laws of bathroom modesty, this score is adjusted as (3/2)(1/4)=37.5%.
3. After each post's score is calculated, whichever post has the highest score will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge. In the event of a tie, priority is given to submissions relevant to the coming week. If it's still a tie, priority is given to the submission with the highest amount of upvotes. If it's still a tie, I'll pick one at random.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 15-21): [Not yet chosen]
---
Revision history:
V1.1: Adjusted how answers are scored and chosen so that terrible answers aren't automatically chosen just because they're seasonally relevant. Clarified how answer scoring works.

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DonielF‭ · 2020-07-13T20:08:52Z (almost 4 years ago)

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
~~1. Any subject matter relevant to the time of year (ex. "Four Species" being suggested around Sukkos time, or "Amalek" being suggested the week of Parshas Ki Seitzei) receives higher priority.~~
2. Of those higher-priority submissions (or all submissions, if none receive higher priority), the one with the highest answer score (calculated with an extra upvote to account for the person submitting it in favor of the topic) will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge.
3. In the event of a tie, I'll pick one at random.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
1. Any subject matter relevant to the time of year (ex. "Four Species" being suggested around Sukkos time, or "Amalek" being suggested the week of Parshas Ki Seitzei) receives higher priority. This higher priority only applies to topics where the event they're relevant to occurs during the week of that topic challenge.
2. Of those higher-priority submissions (or all submissions, if none receive higher priority), the one with the highest answer score (calculated with an extra upvote to account for the person submitting it in favor of the topic) will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge.
3. In the event of a tie, I'll pick one at random.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).
---
List of topic challenges for Q4 5780:
- 23-29 Tammuz (July 15-21): [Not yet chosen]

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
~~- Include the name of the topic, in both Hebrew and English. If the name doesn't translate well, include a short summary giving an explanation of the topic.~~
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
1. Any subject matter relevant to the time of year (ex. "Four Species" being suggested around Sukkos time, or "Amalek" being suggested the week of Parshas Ki Seitzei) receives higher priority.
2. Of those higher-priority submissions (or all submissions, if none receive higher priority), the one with the highest answer score (calculated with an extra upvote to account for the person submitting it in favor of the topic) will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge.
3. In the event of a tie, I'll pick one at random.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).

[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)
This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.
A good submission should:
- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, optionally in transliterated Hebrew, but absolutely in English. If the name doesn't translate well, write a short summary of the topic.
Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:
1. Any subject matter relevant to the time of year (ex. "Four Species" being suggested around Sukkos time, or "Amalek" being suggested the week of Parshas Ki Seitzei) receives higher priority.
2. Of those higher-priority submissions (or all submissions, if none receive higher priority), the one with the highest answer score (calculated with an extra upvote to account for the person submitting it in favor of the topic) will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge.
3. In the event of a tie, I'll pick one at random.
Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).

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[Proposal thread](https://judaism.codidact.com/q/276698)

This thread is for submitting suggestions for the weekly topic challenge. If you have a suggestion for a topic, please reply to this question with your suggestion as an answer.

A good submission should:

- Not be too niche a topic (think "kashrus," or perhaps "milk and meat," not "nat bar nat").
- Not be too broad a topic (think "Book of Joshua," not "Prophets").
- Include the name of the topic, in both Hebrew and English. If the name doesn't translate well, include a short summary giving an explanation of the topic.

Every Tuesday night (subject to change), I will look through the submission suggestions here. The topic of the upcoming week's contest will be decided by the following criteria:

1. Any subject matter relevant to the time of year (ex. "Four Species" being suggested around Sukkos time, or "Amalek" being suggested the week of Parshas Ki Seitzei) receives higher priority.
2. Of those higher-priority submissions (or all submissions, if none receive higher priority), the one with the highest answer score (calculated with an extra upvote to account for the person submitting it in favor of the topic) will be chosen for the coming week's topic challenge.
3. In the event of a tie, I'll pick one at random.

Any submission not chosen for one week is still eligible for the following week's topic challenge. Keep posting suggestions here, regardless of how many suggestions there already are! This list will be renewed every quarter, based on the Jewish calendar months (i.e. Q4 will run until Rosh Hashanah, for a slightly shorter quarter to work out the kinks in the challenge).

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