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Is some kind of HOW-TO guide or HELP NEEDED section a possibility?
Nirvana
aka BUBBA ` ` South Carolina, USA Veteran
I’M REALLY NOT SURE WHAT A THREAD CONSISTS OF
I am a novice at using WWW discussion groups and I finally found one I like: www.newbuddhist.com. However, when, for instance, I read Simonthepilgrim’s “WHERE I THINK I AM TODAY” (#17 in “Buddhism is NOT a religion” under “Buddhism for Atheists,” 12-20-2005, and wish to rate it as “EXCELLENT” (which it most assuredly is), I am reluctant to do so, because it does not appear at the top. In short, I don’t know what I’m doing. I certainly don’t wish to rate all ten entries that way. Does a thread consist in the whole link, sub-link, ten entries, or each piece?
I read the section on avatars, ‘cuz I lust after one, and could get no real idea of what the fuss was about, although it appeared legitimate, just over my head. Couldn’t I ask for help selecting an avatar, or other “personalized” feature for use on this site?
Also, Is there a buddy-list protocol? Shouldn’t I get permission before I make that link?
Additionally, If questions arise in my mind while reading the interactions of members –questions having nothing really to do with the subject of the thread—perhaps I could more gently broach the subject in a how-to-ask-the-question link, so as not to throw a wrench into the gears, so to speak. Badly worded am I here, but perhaps someone may get my gist.
So many other website questions:
How come I get cut off so often when I try to make an entry? I’d explain in greater detail if I knew where to explain.
How do I make Smilies work for me? I just have my problems.
Is a Thread a Link?
How do I get a Long Window for writing a Long Entry? Or, more precisely, how does it happen that in some places I run out of room to write further?
Speaking of writing further, I will.
In short, I just want to understand some things so you all don’t get so fed up with the mess I’ll make and all wish me just to go away out into the cold again.
:bs:
I am a novice at using WWW discussion groups and I finally found one I like: www.newbuddhist.com. However, when, for instance, I read Simonthepilgrim’s “WHERE I THINK I AM TODAY” (#17 in “Buddhism is NOT a religion” under “Buddhism for Atheists,” 12-20-2005, and wish to rate it as “EXCELLENT” (which it most assuredly is), I am reluctant to do so, because it does not appear at the top. In short, I don’t know what I’m doing. I certainly don’t wish to rate all ten entries that way. Does a thread consist in the whole link, sub-link, ten entries, or each piece?
I read the section on avatars, ‘cuz I lust after one, and could get no real idea of what the fuss was about, although it appeared legitimate, just over my head. Couldn’t I ask for help selecting an avatar, or other “personalized” feature for use on this site?
Also, Is there a buddy-list protocol? Shouldn’t I get permission before I make that link?
Additionally, If questions arise in my mind while reading the interactions of members –questions having nothing really to do with the subject of the thread—perhaps I could more gently broach the subject in a how-to-ask-the-question link, so as not to throw a wrench into the gears, so to speak. Badly worded am I here, but perhaps someone may get my gist.
So many other website questions:
How come I get cut off so often when I try to make an entry? I’d explain in greater detail if I knew where to explain.
How do I make Smilies work for me? I just have my problems.
Is a Thread a Link?
How do I get a Long Window for writing a Long Entry? Or, more precisely, how does it happen that in some places I run out of room to write further?
Speaking of writing further, I will.
In short, I just want to understand some things so you all don’t get so fed up with the mess I’ll make and all wish me just to go away out into the cold again.
:bs:
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A 'thread' (also known as a 'topic') consits of a whole conversation, for example this thread, consits of the original post, and my reply, if someone else replied, the thread would also consist of their reply.
Avatars are a great thing to use because it shows you is posting in a very 'in-your-face' way, so there is no need to read the username and then the post, your avatar should be something that is to do with you, maybe a personal photo or a favorite picture.
To implement your avatar the first thing you need to do is get the image on your computer or find the address to a webpage that contains the image (and only the image!)
Going off-topic is not a major crime!
What do you mean by "cut-off" the place to explain is here!
To put a smiley into your post, click it from the panel to the right of the post box.
A thread is all of posts in one conversation as explained above.
Once you have filled up the itnitial box, it will just scroll down automatically to give you more room. So just keep typing!
If you have any other questions, PM me or ask them here.
THANKS! That explains a lot. BUT IS THERE A CAPABILITY TO RATE INDIVIDUAL PIECES AS REALLY TERRIFIC, being mindful that someone visiting this website nine months from now won't be able to find all the wonderful nuggets of gold such as Simonthepilgrim’s #17 in Buddhism is NOT a religion under Buddhism for Atheists. I get cut off after I have typed in my piece and then am told that I am not a member or whatever, and all my typing vanishes. This has happened several times.
Quote of Nirvana:
How do I make Smilies work for me? I just have my problems. As for smileys, They work only with great effort on my part, taking out most of the URL, so that it doesn't show. But mostly, I cannot get the smiley I want, 'cuz I can't figure out how to manipulate the DOS language. I use a Mac.
Quote of Nirvana:
Is a Thread a Link? Not a link, then?
Quote of Nirvana:
How do I get a Long Window for writing a Long Entry? Or, more precisely, how does it happen that in some places I run out of room to write further? Actually, as I found out FINALLY on my own, you have to click on the GO ADVANCED button for more space.
Thanks, Sangha. I'll be in touch with you privately for avatar-procurement help.
Make sure you're logged in. Certain browsers such as AOL tend to log people out after a set amount of time. All I can seggest is to copy (highlight the post, hold "Ctrl" on your keyboard, and press "C" on your keyboard) your message, and then if you get logged out, just paste (highlight the post, hold "Ctrl" on your keyboard, and press "V" on your keyboard) the message once you are logged in properly.
To use NewBuddhist Smilies
Click the smilie from the selection panel, OR type the code, for example, if you type , the image
To get your smilie from a URL
Type or paste the URL into the message box. Highlight the text and then press the image button (found above the message box, looks like a mountain in a yellow box).
To get your smilie from a HTML code, like from Smiley Central
1) Get the HTML code (looks like this: )
2) Apply the IMG codes to this part of the HTML code: Each thread has it's separate URL.
for me please, it needs to be yellow, not blue.
Jan 3, 2006 11:00 a.m., Zenmonk says:
Well, Mark, ZenMonk doesn't have all the answers. Like you, sometimes I need help. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ASKING FOR HELP. In fact, isn't that what this thread is about.
What ZenMonk doesn't know is that you are the only one on this website to give me any help, and I thank you.
Asking people to share a resource with you is VERY RESOURCEFUL!
I will also be posting this on your GRAPHICS thread under LOTUS LOUNGE.
Thank you, Mark/Sangha for everything!!!
Peace & Joy Always
Unfortunately you don't have any answer at all until you do it for yourself. Then the answer is truly yours and is no longer second hand. You're more than capable of downloading software and using tutorials.
Let people be people and let computers be computers!
Though technically correct on this, perhaps the kid was just looking for a graphic, not an answer. Those are 2 different things, of course they are. Kid, I call myself kid, and I do kid, no harm intended.
The fundamental meanings of the Latin words, studia and industria is zeal. Therefore, you're right, the student is the falsification of the man, unless the questions arise from inside him or her.
Study and Industry, interesting! People are always talking, but they usually only hear their own thoughts when the other speaks to them. That's being an Adult. Children, on the other hand, are capable of listening, of absorption. Language is not a communicator, it is a ritual. This is all too often the simple truth.
I've already addressed elsewhere the subject of everything depending on available time, interest, and financial resources...
Zenmonk, you are very deep, and I am trying to understand you --not only here, but in many other areas on this site. I wish it could be marked where I read.
People and computers interact. That's how we are communicating here.
It doesn't really matter, since this is a Buddhist forum, not a web design forum and even if it were, a web designer would have been as likely to give the same answer -learn to do it yourself. I asked why the person in question couldn't do it themselves and was given an answer which I then responded to by presenting other courses of action that would solve the problem and enable that person to do the work for themselves.
The fundamental meanings of the Latin words, studia and industria is zeal. Therefore, you're right, the student is the falsification of the man, unless the questions arise from inside him or her.
Study and Industry, interesting! People are always talking, but they usually only hear their own thoughts when the other speaks to them. That's being an Adult. [/QUOTE]
Sometimes yes, but Buddhism is a religion for the spiritual adult, which is different in that it requires us to both listen and to make the effort, not to expect others to do for us that which we are capable of doing ourselves.
[/QUOTE]Children, on the other hand, are capable of listening, of absorption. Language is not a communicator, it is a ritual. This is all too often the simple truth.
I've already addressed elsewhere the subject of everything depending on available time, interest, and financial resources... [/QUOTE]
I'm glad you agree. This is precisely the point. Someone who has the time, interest and resources to post the graphic on here and ask for help, also has the time, interest and resources to download software and do his own work.
Not deep, I simply agree with all Buddhist teachers who maintain that we do things for ourselves, unless we are genuinely incapable of doing so without help, and that doesn't just apply to conceptual knowledge but with all things, including wanting a web graphic. The Dharma is not a set of beliefs or concepts, it's how you tie your shoes, how you look at someone when you meet them, how you find solutions to problems that arise in daily life.
Often when people first come to a Buddhist center or temple, they assume that the learning and teaching starts when they sit down and listen to the teachings. A good teacher will soon disabuse them of this idea. The teaching starts when they step into the temple, take off their shoes and are shown how and where to place them. It continues as they are shown how to walk in the Zendo, how to close or open a door with mindfulness, how to be present when they are washing dishes, typing on a computer, or making tea. The teaching is also manifested when they are shown that instead of asking, they should try for themselves and discover their own abilities. Hence the expression, "See with your ears, hear with your eyes."
WHAT ABOUT TEMPERAMENT? I believe it was John Dewey who pointed out that the reasons philosophers couldn't agree, was because of their different temperaments.
Now Buddhism is a philosophy, not a philosopher. Therefore, different Buddhist monks will have different temperaments, with differing tendencies and emphases. That is certainly true of Indian swamis. Some are warm and embracing, some are chatty, and what-have-you.
I accept it now, finally, that you are dogmatically a DO-IT-YOURSELFER. Fine.
Please accept it, that I am an ANTI-DOGMA DOGMATIC (although I'm a Leo. Sorry, I'm an assortment).
I HATE HARD-AND-FAST RULES. Also, because I work in a field where shortcuts are necessary, I like machines and other instrument to give me a hand a lot.
Well, I drifted from temperament to habits, and if I don't close soon, I'm afraid I might end up agreeing with you (which would be pleasant enough, but probably a real conversation killer.)
We appreciate our lives by taking care of them, and that means taking care of the things that we might normally consider inconsequential. Buddhism leaves the big questions to philosophers, having learnt the hard way that you find the answers not up in the head but with your hands, your breath, your moment by moment activity. Your life is short and every moment brings you closer to death. How do you give life to your activity? This is the question that matters right now. As for you agreeing with me - that would indeed be a real conversation killer but I'll try my best to ensure that doesn't happen. :pirate:
zenmonk_genryu, the reason why I asked here first (I then did ask a graphic designer to do it after your reply) is because I expected the sangha to be able to help me, and Frizzer so kindly did.
I do not do it myself, not because I don't have the knowledge to do so, because I don't have the software to do so. I do not download the trial copy because it takes a long time, wastes space on my computer, makes my computer run slower and anybody else could do it in under a minute.
Both adults and children are capable of doing both those things, as I demonstrated when I taught you.
As long as the view is that some tasks are simply too much trouble and that we should get them out of the way as soon as possible, we've lost the opportunity to be present and mindful. We reinforce our attachment to our preferances and miss the plain truth that it's in those very irksome tasks that we have a chance to let go a little of who we think we are, and to stop cutting ourselves off from our lives and from others.
In Buddhism the term 'Intimacy' is used with a somewhat different connotation than usual and is connected with what I'm pointing to here. It indicates no seperation, no gap, between us and what we do. This may be of interest:
http://www.prairiewindzen.org/intimacy.html
Actually, I am the world's worst technical doofus, but having learnt a lesson on how to access specific files and distinguish the necessary from the unnecessary, yesterday, I managed to access said files and clear an awful lot of doo-doos all by my little self!
And if at first you don't succeed.... There's an awful lot to be said for the biro!!
I agree. I can mess up things---especially computers---horribly! :scratch: I freely admit I am a technical doofus!:hiding:
Adiana:wavey:
Makes PURRFECT, sense to me, but then, I'm a Leo.
ZenMonk is still cool, though. That's why federica & Adiana are so devoted to him that they agree with him, even though I can't make any sense of what they just wrote.
Fed and I have certainly had our disagreements, which is as it should be of course. If we always agreed, I'd start getting worried. I'd be even more worried if someone else thought that I got things right more than I already think I do, if that makes sense. And yes, I'm cool. :buck:
:rocker: Let Computers Be Computers and People Be People!
- Zen Master Ehei Dogen
:wavey:
I can't figure this out.
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Do you get notification of new posts, or what?
Go to the top of the page.
Click on 'user CP'.
Under settings and options (column to left of screen) click on 'Edit options'.
Go to the second section, titled,'Messaging and notification'.
In 'Default thread and subscription mode' you can then choose what type of notification you want.
remember to then scroll down and to 'save changes'.
there you go.
My notifcations arrive about 5 hours after the post has been made, and by that time, I've just been in and checked under 'new posts' anyway....
Hope this helps!
Anyone who's been doing Buddhist meditation for a fair length of time will at some point understand the above experentially. It's a lovely passage. Thank you Nirvana
I've noticed there's a place that shows who's currently signed on. Could there be a place near there that shows who's logged on in the last 24-36 hours or so? JUST ASKING a Question, don't want to suggest something you already may have in another format.
I mean, I'm no Simonthepilgrim, and don't want to fill up threads so that people get tired and don't get around to reading his invaluable posts. Not to mention Elohim's, Frederica's, Buddhafoot's, ZenMonk's, DharmaKitten's, (Well, the List goes on and on.)
That's the great thing about this site, you can ask questions without the fear of being made to look like a fool by other people. That is what has kept me here as I have had the occasional negative experience when posting questions on certain other forums.
Take care,
Adrian
Nirvana, ALL posts and comments are worth reading... if they bring up objections in people, then those people need to ask THEMSELVES why.... We all have the right to be heard and respected.... never consider what you post as being worse than anyone else.
I don't know... I think the only way is to look at the POSTS for the last 24 hours which will show you where they posted and who it was... But as for simply checking forum presence, I don't think so.....
Federica writes:
I'd rephrase "what I post may get in the way of WEBSURFERS FINDING THE TIME TO FIND what you have to say. I was not alluding to, nor have I ever alluded to the people already familiar with this site. We all know what a generous sharer of treasures you are.
There are a lot of threads on this Website, and therefore one can't read every thread; but I find myself looking at any thread (no matter how averse I may be to the general topic) just because you've weighed in on the subject. I'm always glad I did.
Always Refreshing.
Nirvana
... And may Your Very Name Be Bliss...
(Simon Understands the Person for Whom This Bountiful World Was Made.)