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This is a book for learning more Perl. Neither a reference book nor a tutorial book, the Perl Cookbook serves as a companion book to both. It's for people who already know the basics but are wondering how to mix all those ingredients together into a complete program.—Tom Christiansen & Nathan Torkington, "Preface", Perl Cookbook

Asking on Stack Overflow is a bit like sitting at a sushi bar. If you respect the traditions, there is no better experience. Where else can you get a personalized answer to your programming question from a true master of the field? Unlike sushi, anyone with access to a search engine can sample Stack Overflow answers. What could be better?

Well, suppose someone is standing behind you at the bar and they grab some fish off your plate. After tasting it, they tell the chef, "Hey, could I get that with a bit more salt?"

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Moderator vacation

Stack Overflow uniquely requires moderators to operate with a standard of duty. Even so, moderators generally feel a sense of obligation to be around in case of problems. Such voluntary dedication is much appreciated and often means people really enjoy what they are doing. But everyone needs a vacation from time to time.

Currently, we have no good way for moderators to communicate their vacation plans to either to Community Managers (we suggest they email us), other moderators (this usually happens in chat) or other users (more on this momentarily). In addition, the temptation remains to "just handle that one flag" if a moderator happens to browse their site while theoretically off-duty. Finally, I believe "vacation" might be a graceful way for moderators to step down if the job stops being fun and rewarding.

Proposal

Pro

jericson

# Moderator vacation
Stack Overflow uniquely requires moderators to operate with a [standard of duty](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/287878/should-stack-overflow-moderators-have-a-standard-of-duty). Even so, moderators generally feel a sense of obligation to be around in case of problems. Such voluntary dedication is much appreciated and often means people really enjoy what they are doing. But _everyone_ [needs a vacation](http://jericson.github.io/2015/07/21/vacation.html) from time to time. 

Currently, we have no good way for moderators to communicate their vacation plans to either to Community Managers (we suggest they email us), other moderators (this usually happens in chat) or other users (more on this momentarily). In addition, the temptation remains to "just handle that one flag" if a moderator happens to browse their site while theoretically off-duty. Finally, I believe "vacation" might be a graceful way for moderators to step down if the job stops being fun and rewarding.

## Proposal

Pro

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Text,CreationDate,DeletionDate,Site Name
"""this simple case seems not to be subject to [gotchas of floating point representation]."" A very fast way to find out is to use one of [IEEE 754 calculators](http://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html). Enter the desired value, and check the resultant representation. For 2.78 you get `2.7799999713897705`.","2015-12-16 18:53:47","","Stack Overflow"
"(just temporary. wil remove in few mins.)","2015-12-14 21:35:02","2015-12-14 21:40:56","Stack Overflow"
"...............","2015-12-27 08:00:55","2015-12-27 08:04:13","Stack Overflow"
"@Aify - in-house proprietary library (on top of DBI)","2015-12-15 04:03:30","","Stack Overflow"
"@Arronical, I guess the polite thing to do would be get the hat and delete the comment....","2015-12-16 15:17:03","2015-12-16 15:27:43","Stack Overflow"
"@assylias, you just want a hat... Sorry Jon :)","2015-12-15 14:10:43","2015-12-15 16:10:39","Stack Overflow"
"@BenjaminGruenbaum agreed.","2015-12-17 17:14:57","2015-12-17 17:39:45","S

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SITE_FULL_NAME's [ELECTION_NUMBER moderator election][1] has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the NUMBER_OF_CANIDATES new moderators are:

[![MOD1_NAME][mod1pic]][mod1] [![MOD2_NAME][mod2pic]][mod2] [![MOD3_NAME][mod3pic]][mod3] 

Please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!

For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results [here][1], or [view a summary report online][7].


  [1]: SITE_DOMAIN/election/1

jericson

Hello,

I'm writing in reference to your Islam Stack Exchange account:

http://islam.stackexchange.com/users/602/hadi

We recently noticed a substantial number of votes on your account are for *specific users*. Please note that votes on Islam Stack Exchange should be cast to reflect the quality, accuracy, and relevance of the posts being voted on.

Islam Stack Exchange is still in the early stages of growth. There aren't yet a [huge number of voters](http://islam.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Voters&filter=week) on the site, which means a relatively small number of votes can have dramatic influence. Islam.SE has also struggled with [sectarianism](http://meta.islam.stackexchange.com/questions/275/why-sectarianism-is-ruining-your-site) over the years. So it's especially disruptive when votes are exclusively for people answering from a specific division of Islam.

jericson

Good answers respect their questions

If you have a few minutes to be philosophical, take a moment to read A Day at the Park. I find it very useful to the question at hand. A key line:

My favorite kind of answers are those that my questions give birth to.

Both of the original answers to this question are solutions to the same problem: sometimes answers destroy curiousity. Bring your own framework addresses concern that novel approaches may lose their place at the table if room is only allowed for "standard" answers. We would then be left with the answers that have already been accepted by various orthodoxies. Avoid truth assertions contends that answers that fail to qualify truth statements crowd out honest scholarship and alienate other potential answers.

I was more than willing to post both of thos

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Avoid truth assertions
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We want a site with broad appeal that welcomes diverse perspectives. This site focuses on the *text* and the process of interpreting it, using tools such as language, history, archaeology, and science.  None of that is inherently religious, which is what *distinguishes* BH from other Internet sites about the Bible.

One of our core tenets is that hermeneutical process is (or ought to be) open to examination from all sides. Religious claims are often not open to examination. Not only that, but they're polarizing.  Therefore, unqualified statements of religious truth are out of place here; this is a site about hermeneutics, not a site about Truth.<sup>1</sup>

Welcoming assertions of religious truth drives away some key groups of users, to the detriment of the site.  This has been raised on meta by several users.<sup>2</sup>  If the current trend continues we will lose the Hebrew-bible-based, rabbinic persepctive, since few Christian users here have any background