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  • #591353
    WolfishMusings
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    As a personal request…

    If you are going to give a source to back up your position, give one that is easy to research. A Tosfos “in the second perek of kiddushin” is not a proper source. “Tosfos, Kiddushin 42b D”H blah-blah-blah” is a proper source.

    The point of a source is so that someone can quickly what you are quoting — not to cause someone to spend hours causing your disputant to look for a source to back up your argument.

    Thank you,

    The Wolf

    #681294
    WolfishMusings
    Participant

    In the interest of fairness, while I was composing this, the one whom it was aimed at DID put up an exact source.

    The Wolf

    #681295

    Of course no one need feel compelled to give a source for everything they say.

    This is a coffee room, not an entrance interview to a top Yeshivah

    Not everyone here is a Talmid Chochum.

    No one need fear to speak because someone will demand a source.

    And if someone does request a source, please do not pursue the matter if the poster is unable to bring one.

    #681296
    Rochelle
    Member

    Yea, but the pposter should also drop it and not continue screaming there is a source.

    #681297

    Yes

    Or: “I know the source but I won’t give it to you until you first prove you’re worthy.”

    But I’m talking about reasonable people.

    #681298
    Rochelle
    Member

    So can we ban the unreasonable?

    #681300

    No, but I won’t allow anymore onesided hijackings of Shidduch threads

    #681302
    artchill
    Participant

    Thankfully those two threads were finally closed today. With kavod habriyos and emunah, all girls and boys will be zoche to meet their bashert.

    I have no source for this, just my gut feeling!!

    EDITED

    #681307
    oomis
    Participant

    Artchill – amein v’amein.

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