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Title: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Dexter on September 10, 2007, 09:35:44 AM
www.jtf.org/c.rm

www.jtf.org/c.mp3

The program was 2 hours and 41 minutes this week.

Long show...

Thanks Chaim and thank you Jimmy.

Title: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Shoshana on September 10, 2007, 09:40:12 AM
Thanks! I have a few weeks of shows to catch up on. This week's show is great so far. :)
Title: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: jsullivan on September 10, 2007, 09:43:55 AM
Chaim loves doing the show, but he believes that it is too long. He wants to find a way to cut the length of future programs.
Title: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Trumpeldor on September 10, 2007, 10:33:39 AM
Chaim loves doing the show, but he believes that it is too long. He wants to find a way to cut the length of future programs.

Quite simply, the show will be much shorter if everybody asked a single, short question. The problem is that Chaim is too nice to strictly enforce that rule.

I suggest that the moderator edits the questions in some fashion before Chaim sees them.
Title: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Dan on September 10, 2007, 10:46:17 AM
Great show!
Title: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: EagleEye on September 10, 2007, 10:56:05 AM
Are there archives on the ask JTF shows?
Title: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Shoshana on September 10, 2007, 11:52:04 AM
Chaim loves doing the show, but he believes that it is too long. He wants to find a way to cut the length of future programs.

I really like the length of the shows although I think people do have a point in that of course hard core listeners are going to listen to a 3 hr show where as a casual supporter probably won't. Alot of the questions are entirely too long though- maybe we should have a limit on the number of lines a question can be. 2 paragraphs or something like that is not a short question.
Title: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Zvulun Ben Moshe on September 10, 2007, 01:03:12 PM
I think the show will be and should be longer, since the organization is growing, Baruh HaShem!
Title: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Joe Schmo on September 10, 2007, 01:15:44 PM
People should ask one quick question or comment only.  I don't know how many times Chaim has asked for this.

Don't people have any respect for him?
Title: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Dexter on September 10, 2007, 02:24:12 PM
I think the show will be and should be longer, since the organization is growing, Baruh HaShem!
Chaim should cut each show for half, he should make one half, rest, and than do the other half .
Title: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Trumpeldor on September 10, 2007, 02:37:53 PM
Are there archives on the ask JTF shows?

Yes. jtfarchive.org, show C.
Title: Re: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Joe Gutfeld on September 10, 2007, 08:13:43 PM
Chaim does like to give detailed answers to the questions.  Sometimes he give about 5 to 10 minutes an answer.  So, if there are about 40 questions on one show, it's goes about 3 hours.
Title: Re: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: YESHA on September 11, 2007, 07:36:59 AM
I think many posters are hitting the nail on the head. Chaim takes more time to answer some questions that require it. Many ask short, consise qestions - but those can take much time to answer.

This is tough. I can't think of a way to shortern shows, despite that being needed now more then ever. More than 2 hrs is problematic, even if people ask only short qs that won't seem to help the problem!

Zev
Title: Re: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Lubab on September 11, 2007, 06:53:54 PM
The only way to effectively shorten the shows is to limit it to 20 questions or 25 questions or less.

This would not be the end of the world.

If you missed last week you'd likely be first on the next show.
Title: Re: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Joe Gutfeld on September 12, 2007, 11:11:43 AM
That's a good idea.  That way no one can sit at their computers for about 3 hours.  It will be a shorter show.
Title: Re: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Trumpeldor on September 12, 2007, 10:57:50 PM
The only way to effectively shorten the shows is to limit it to 20 questions or 25 questions or less.

This would not be the end of the world.

If you missed last week you'd likely be first on the next show.

I don't like this idea, Lubab. Only the hardcore posters will get their questions in. If everybody simply obeyed the rules, Chaim could give quality responses  to a great many questions in a reasonable time frame.
Title: Re: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Joe Schmo on September 12, 2007, 11:31:20 PM
If everybody simply obeyed the rules, Chaim could give quality responses  to a great many questions in a reasonable time frame.

Yes.  People continue to ask multi-paragraph questions despite Chaim's request that they be brief.
Title: Re: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Joe Schmo on September 12, 2007, 11:33:19 PM
The only way to effectively shorten the shows is to limit it to 20 questions or 25 questions or less.

This would not be the end of the world.

If you missed last week you'd likely be first on the next show.

I don't like this idea, Lubab. Only the hardcore posters will get their questions in.

Early bird gets the worm.  (bad analogy, perhaps)  :)
Title: Re: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Sarah on September 13, 2007, 04:31:22 PM
Maybe there should be a set time for the show and the questions, say 2 hours-just an example- and once those two hours are up, he stops answering questions. In other words, Chaim answers as many questions as possible in 2 hours and the rest get moved to the next week.
Title: Re: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Dexter on September 13, 2007, 04:55:16 PM
Maybe there should be a set time for the show and the questions, say 2 hours-just an example- and once those two hours are up, he stops answering questions. In other words, Chaim answers as many questions as possible in 2 hours and the rest get moved to the next week.
Exectly ...
Title: Re: Baruch HaShem, Ask JTF Is Ready (09/10)
Post by: Zvulun Ben Moshe on September 14, 2007, 12:06:47 AM
If everybody simply obeyed the rules, Chaim could give quality responses  to a great many questions in a reasonable time frame.

Yes.  People continue to ask multi-paragraph questions despite Chaim's request that they be brief.

Yes. Especially at the very top of the list.