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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #276446 |
@monica classically, a starter is a piece of leftover dough from yesterday's bread. Do that every day for years and you get a starter effect naturally. If you forgot to separate challa from yesterday's dough, then you run into the questions in msh's source when you use the piece you saved for today. ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276424 |
Oh I bet it's because I tagged two people @msh @Monica (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276437 |
I don't know what you mean by self consistent. It could also be self consistent to exclude questions about Pesach if you define your rules that way. This doesn't seem like a helpful metric... I don't even know what "marginally Jewish" means. The point of sectioning off Hebrew questions isn't because... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276424 |
@msh210 did this ping you? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276385 |
Aliza, Mi Yodeya was de jure pretty non-Orthodox. Stack Exchange is (or was) optimized to attract experts. It so happens that most of the world's Judaism experts are Orthodox. (That's just an observation.) So de facto most of Mi Yodeya took place for and between Orthodox Jews. I don't expect this sit... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276442 |
@manasseh That would only address translation questions. What about the rest of language questions? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276442 |
I don't particularly like this suggestion. If this feels too loose to you or asking for trouble, consider the other answer which suggests isolating this scope-anomaly to a separate category https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276383#answer-276424 (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276442 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Are questions purely about Hebrew in-scope? We should allow any Hebrew, Ladino, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic questions with no restrictions, even ones that clearly have nothing at all to do with Judaism as chances are we won't get so many of them to create problems. Handling the few that we get and knowing we explicitly allow non-Judaism content on a... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276435 |
Is there any difference between this suggestion and the policy at Mi Yodeya? I'm having trouble seeing one. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276437 |
I don't understand your response. What do you mean by "separate reasons"? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276395 |
If one doesn't have a correct good answer to post one can't feel something is wrong with what is posted? I very much dislike deflecting legitimate criticism with "I don't see you doing it better". That may not have been your intention but that's how your suggestion comes across to me. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276424 |
@Monica Here I propose a scope difference (and potentially a language of discourse difference). (Ping @msh above) (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276425 |
Post edited: added a third proposed import method |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276437 |
You see no reason to distinguish "Please translate this passage in this Hebrew Christmas tree store pamphlet to English" and "What's the best sukkah material that will withstand freezing temperatures" as regards their fitting on a Judaism QA site? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276437 |
You like msh210 are making a reductio ad absurdum argument. But then we get nothing. We have categories. Let's use them. Let's use them judiciously and not be so afraid of them that we don't ever gain from them. Separating out Hebrew serves a purpose too: it allows for maintaining a different set of ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276383 |
"Please translate this passage in Agnon into English for me" "Why did Agnon choose this image to describe X" "Which parts of Israel prefer conjugation X over Y in daily speech" "What does this slang term I heard from a cab driver mean" (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276437 |
"if they aren't 'Jewish enough,' the same argument could be made for all kinds of other categories of questions" I agree completely except that I don't know what other things you're talking about that aren't about Judaism but could be a good use of site resources. Product recommendations, at least fo... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276395 |
This answer feels to me to be entirely missing the point. While clarifying what level of obligation hearing shofar during Elul is (and a custom can be obligatory, despite the apparent word games in this answer), the OP still doesn't know if a woman fulfills it if she blew the shofar herself. (Not to ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276402 |
I don't understand how your logic supports option B more than A. Indeed it's generally forbidden to do work while saying blessings as it's distracting. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276395 |
Calling out the notes is practiced on Yom Kippur at Neilah in at least some communities, even though that blowing is 'only' customary. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276404 |
I don't think we should host any Purim Torah at least for the foreseeable future. It gets out of control and is generally low quality. Let's focus on other things. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276392 |
Consider further a deaf person who blows but can't hear their own production. Does blowing for yourself do anything or is it just hearing someone blow that matters? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276395 |
Why do you limit yourself to "there would seem to be no need to blow the Shofar during Elul without a Minyan"? All your arguments apply equally to a minyan as well (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276395 |
Calling out the notes is not required on Rosh Hashanah as far as I know. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276424 |
@msh I agree that we should use categories very sparingly but that doesn't mean we don't use them at all. Hebrew is often not sufficiently Judaism related to fit in the regular Judaism QA but the expertise is clearly sufficiently closely related that we can capitalize on shared expert attraction. Ser... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276410 |
"there is no view that holds that writing a single letter (or even an entire sefer torah), will achieve the mitzvah without ownership of the sefer torah itself." This is not true, though they are in the extreme minority. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276410 |
"One who participates in the Mitzvah of writing even one letter of the sefer torah, as an agent of the owner, it is as if he wrote it in its entirety." I don't think that's an accurate understanding of the Rambam at all. Most understand that line to be referring to fixing an Torah with a mistake that... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276362 |
Can you clarify in this question what the question is? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276391 |
"What is Joe Lieberman's position on sovereign immunity?" (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276362 |
@manassehkatz I know, but were it not for Mi Yodeya, there's no way people here would be talking about it a week into the site's existence and only debating if it should be two weeks or more. Let's take this opportunity to go back to the drawing board about a productive use of site resources and ways... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276425 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What content do we want to import from Mi Yodeya? I don't see why we would throw out the old vote counts. If a few people gain a few extra points on a one time basis, that's not such a big deal. The advantage gained by having good signal about post quality, more Google hits to attract people to the site, and the ability to duplicate out many basic q... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276423 |
I guess I interpreted this question as a "What are good things to do with the Categories feature" question. In retrospect I don't actually know what is being asked here. @Monica (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276424 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Are questions purely about Hebrew in-scope? One solution is a Hebrew Language category. See here. Potentially all your examples would be in scope in that category. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276423 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Categories - Divrei Torah, Purim Torah I propose a category called Hebrew Language. This could be for anyone studying the language, whether Biblical or Modern or anything in between. No Judaism connection would be needed for questions in that category. Perhaps פוסטס קוד בי ריטין אין הברו אז וול. There is much overlap between Judaism... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276394 |
@Aliza look at Isaac's example https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276383 (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276362 |
"One key item to decide is whether this should be open for new questions all the time or limited to 'close to Purim'."
Or if we need to have that at all.
I don't think we should be hosting much if any Purim Torah. That was a funny idea at Mi Yodeya which got somewhat old and out-of-hand over th... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276364 |
Is double voting such a big concern/problem? Why throw away useful signal? Double voting is a problem for rep-farmers. That's not likely to be such an issue here on a one time thing. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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