ADD COMMUNITY - Buddhism

amp

I reckon we should set up a Boards Scientology sekrit society for trolling purposes and then Dev can go a research it and... umm

/me buys a Buddhist T-shirt

Evil Phil

Scientology applications would probably be more like:

1. Kill DeVore
2. Cover-up murder of DeVore
3. Propose board
4. Charge five people so they can support us

Anyway, can we have a scuba board ...

sceptre

Originally posted by Evil Phil
Anyway, can we have a scuba board ...

*cough*

Hobbes

Originally posted by DeVore
Dont feel hard done by, you should go and see how much trouble the Christians had to go through to get their board.

Yea but they always were persecuted. -.-;;

Now they're going to think that the application procedure is:

More like...

1. Sue the pants off Devore
2. Own boards.ie
3. Make thier own board
4. Get 5 people to spam the sh!t out of you with mails trying to sell you crap water diets that protect you against radioactive fallout.

Yoda

DeVore, on http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=41 the Buddhism board's subtitle has been left off. It's to be "For the discussion of Buddhist issues". (With a small "i" in "issues". I don't know why the Christian "Issues" are capitalized. :rolleyes:)

Talliesin

Originally posted by Yoda
It's to be "For the discussion of Buddhist issues". (With a small "i" in "issues". I don't know why the Christian "Issues" are capitalized.

Hmm. Should we have something about title case in the cultural requirements standard

Crash

congrats on becoming mod and all, but did you really feel it necessary to post on other boards pimping your boards? somehow this strikes me as wrong and stupid. people find the boards they want generally, and i'd rather not have a post in the middle of a forum that is completely unrelated saying "Buddhism forum now, come one come all" type thing.

i deleted it so you know. if you have a problem with that you can PM me and whatever, but meh.


Neil

Yoda

Please don't be rude. "Pimping" indeed.

DeVore expressed concern that there would not be much interest in the Buddhism forum. I did a simple search and I found that in three forums there had been reasonably interesting discussions on the subject of Buddhism; your forum was one of them. It seemed appropriate to make a brief announcement of invitation to interested readers of those three forums.

I did not post to your forum because of my thrill at being a Mod. I posted because I detected valid interest in the subject matter on your board.

As Mod, the simplest thing for you to would have simply been to lock the thread, so that people could follow the link if they wished. Discussion of the link would have been inappropriate, I agree.

I am sorry if this seems to break in some horrific way some unspoken protocol, but the boards are a very big place, and it is easy for people to miss boards when they come online.

Evil Phil

Originally posted by sceptre
*cough*

*cough*

amp

Originally posted by Yoda
Blah, blah, blah.

Hey next time, why not ask first and pimp later like a good little robot?

And maybe turn your arrogance chip down a notch or seven.

HTH!

Yoda

I don't think I've been particularly arrogant. I think I was brief and polite, and I do not seem to have disrupted CTYI, Politics, or Humanities particularly.

Thanks again for your kind and thoughtful words.

sceptre

Originally posted by Evil Phil
*cough*

Ah.

CuLT

Originally posted by Yoda
I don't think I've been particularly arrogant. I think I was brief and polite, and I do not seem to have disrupted CTYI, Politics, or Humanities particularly.

Thanks again for your kind and thoughtful words.

Don't forget your post in Christianity..., stop stirring the pot.

The point is not whether you're post disrupted the forums, but the fact that it's off topic and/or annoying.

The fact that I have a link to Pix'n'Mix below my nick is enough, people can realize "hey, there's a forum I don't know" just from the fact that I post.

DapperGent

Without trying to be too cheeky coupling this statement:

Originally posted by amp
Hey next time, why not ask first and pimp later like a good little robot?

With a nice little slag about arrogance seems a bit, eh, can't quite remember the phrase, but there's definately a pot in it somewhere.

CuLT

Hate to piss on your parade, but I've had a quick look through the Buddhist forum and I only see evidence of one Buddhist. The moderator.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm sure the poll there will tell all eventually .

amp

Originally posted by DapperGent
Without trying to be too cheeky coupling this statement:

With a nice little slag about arrogance seems a bit, eh, can't quite remember the phrase, but there's definately a pot in it somewhere.

Slagging someone doesn't make me arrogant. Nor does calling someone arrogant mean I'm claiming I'm not arrogant. I am fairly arrogant but you don't see me posting to other forums advertising boards that I mod.

Yoda

Cult, the forum is for discussion of Buddhist issues. There is no requirement that anyone participating be a Buddhist. (It helps that the moderator is, I suppose.)

Amp, give it a rest. Ta.

CuLT

Originally posted by Yoda
Cult, the forum is for discussion of Buddhist issues.

I'm curious as to how one can discuss Buddhist issues if they are not, in fact, Buddhist.

I would find it quite difficult to discuss issues related to paganism considering I am not pagan.

Similarily I doubt people who are not Catholic would have problems relating to any issues I might have with my religion.

Yoda

Simple curiosity might suffice. About, for instance, the Dalai Lama, karma, reincarnation, meditation, Buddhism in Burmese and Tibetan politics. Buddhist economics. Comparison between Buddhist and Christian mysticism.

Plenty of people post to both Paganism and Christianity who are not either Pagan or Christian.

DeVore

The Board has been created. Charter discussion regarding whats appropriate can be sent there. Everything else looks like it could go to dev/null. Therefore this thread is closed.

DeV.