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Yet another new Forum
This is just for Mahayana: http://dharmawheel.net/
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Still, good to see alternative sites up.
Good luck with them all.
http://www.buddhismwithoutboundaries.com
Hello again Floating_Abu! How are you these days? Well I hope.
Kind wishes,
Dazzle
Thankyou Daz, likewise for you
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It's akin to walking into a restaurant and handing out fliers for other restaurants. :hrm:
I hesitated to mention anything at the time, because to be frank, I'm not an administrator, I'm merely a Moderator, and I felt perhaps I might be overstepping my authority.
However, this said, it would be courteous for new members to first check with administrators on the form of doing such things, and then perhaps now, the relevant links in signatures could be deleted.....?
Many thanks.
I say this, as some of the sites these contributors have flagged up are specialist ones; Theravadan, Mahayana, Vajrayana etc. Such places are useful with respect to in-depth knowledge of particular traditions, practices and so on.
I have accounts at a few such sites and I occasionally use them when I have a specific question that I feel can get answered by people on those sites. I don't find them much use for general conversation and comparative stuff, as they don't tend to tolerate anything beyond their own specialism (which is fair enough I guess).
For relaxed, human debate, where all kinds of ideas can be put on the table, newbuddhist is by far the best IMHO.
I agree with each of your points, Sri. The real strength of NB, for me, is that we are open-handed, open-hearted and open-minded. It would be a pity to begin to close down.
A thread specifically for members to share their useful links, including their own sites and new boards, would be useful.
After all, most of us arrived here by following a link from elsewhere! "Huddled masses".
I entirely agree with you. Our little family here is generally well mannered. I could not in good faith promote some websites where right speech is not followed.
simplicity
Hi grackle,
I think people vote with their feet. I've left sites that don't suit me but I think we are on a slippery slope if we start to pass judgement on other Buddhist sites using "right speech" as a benchmark.
Namaste
If you read carefully, the objection was rather more to the cavalier way in which 'new' members felt it absolutely ok to promote other sites without so much as a "Would it be ok if we mention so-and-so?"
It just seemed a little bit - preumptuous. I think that may be too strong a word, but certainly something of that ilk......*
Palzang
Note that I didn't instruct anyone to remove anything, close the discussion, or edit signatures. I simply said it's a bit rude for new members to push their own forum when they've been here only a month. It raises an eyebrow about motive. They're quite nice to have here and I hope it was nothing more than a case of different perspectives on etiquette.
And I would have said aluminium....:p
Thanks Pally, what a nerk!! :rolleyes:
Palzang
We Brits would want to say "Why did you remove the 'i', it was perfectly happy where it was!!"
Such a strange world___ where we colonists add an extra syllable to the name of the final Arbiter: the dictionary.
Why we Yanks need four syllables to say what the Brits say so well in three is beyond me.
Well, an "i" for an eye, I guess.
Palzang
Eye think.
Don't chew?