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Are you sure this is an automated message?
You have a history of asking low quality questions. Please put more
thought, time, and effort into your questions. To help you do this,
the number of questions you may ask per week is currently ...
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Am I being downvoted for not knowing what I'm talking about
Am I being downvoted for not knowing what I'm talking about? That sort of insanely arrogant attitude is so off-putting, both for sincere questioners (as I am) and for experts (and I mean PhD level ...
user26068
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Do you worry at all that your questions (or answers) are culturally insensitive?
Do you worry at all that your questions (or answers) are culturally insensitive? Obviously, Buddhism does have a presence in America and Europe, but equally obviously its home is east Asia, often ...
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Do we get official warnings before being banned?
I see https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/8157/dhamma-dhatu is banned. Were they warned "you will be banned if you do this again" or is it impromptu?
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Deleting bumped topics
Topics may be "bumped" to the top of the Active view.
What can cause a question to be bumped?
The Community user will bump non-negatively scored, open questions every hour that have at ...
ChrisWMod
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Why was my question closed?
Buddhist thoughts on AI
Is it just that you don't want me to ask the question? Why actually?
user26068
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10th Anniversary of Buddhism SE!
In June Buddhism SE will turn 10 years old. Congratulations on asking, answering, voting, and building this community for a whole decade!
Whenever a Stack Exchange site turns 10 we like to celebrate ...
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Can I ask "what's wrong with my reasoning" here?
You're not allowed on philosophy stack, and I want to know if there is anything wrong with my reasoning! NB there probably is.
user25078
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Can comments removal be delayed till after a period of time?
Firstly, thanks for the thankless work, moderators! I am truly sorry if asking these questions on comments removal create more work and headaches for you. But I would like to clarify a few doubts.
I ...
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Political content
I see that Politics.SE has this policy -- to "protect the site from propaganda posts":
What measures are taken to protect the site from propaganda posts during the ongoing war between ...
ChrisWMod
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Where can I post on this site?
This site has various pages etc.
Where are the different places to post, and what is each one used for?
ChrisWMod
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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What are your suggestions and vision for moderation in 2024? And opportunity to moderate BSE
Happy New Year to users of Buddhism Stack Exchange!
In this New Year, the moderators of Buddhism SE would like to get your feedback on:
Suggestions for improvement: What would you change on Buddhism ...
ruben2020Mod
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Should we scale the severity of an infraction by the experience/reputation of the user?
Generally speaking in most societies we don't scale the severity of punishment for violating the law with the experience/status/importance/reputation of the person committing the law breaking. In ...
user13375
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Dealing with a serial abuser and serial harassment
Over the course of many years @dhamma-dhatu has engaged and continues to engage in serial abuse of this sites rules. His behavior has been brought up time and time again by many different people and ...
user13375
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What is the goal of this community?
When the Buddha attained liberation he immediately dedicated his life to the selfless goal of helping others end their suffering.
There are people posting questions who are in need of responses that ...
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Suggestion: Required tag for tradition
I would like to suggest a required tag on all new posts to indicate the tradition being asked about, or none/any/whatever wording you like. This would save time on back-and-forth info-gathering for ...
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moderator intervention notifications
Is it possible to get notification when moderators delete content - comments, questions, answers, etc - of content providers? I don't necessarily mind my content being deleted if it's not meeting the ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Should we use honorifics when referring to monks?
This comment refers to Thanissaro Bhikkhu by name:
Nice. And I noticed that in the updated version of Kimattha Sutta, Geoff has replaced the word "Serenity" with "Calm". Thanks.
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I don't want to belittle anyone, that's not why I argue with some answers
I don't want to belittle anyone, that's not why I argue with some answers. I do, however, think that some people need to be more aware, not only to what is being explicitly asked, but also what ...
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why is there a buddhism meta forum?
i was on buddhism.stackexchange.com and i clicked on the meta link and it brought me to buddhism.meta.stackexchange.com, but I was expecting to redirect to meta.stackexchange.com. What is buddhism....
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Should moderator act political?
It appears that the Russian moderator, "Vollkoffer", dwelling in US is already total corrupt and makes use of power here to even oppose his own kind, parents and father. Censure and act for ...
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Questions about rebirth
I wanted to apologise for starting so many of them. Maybe it came off like I was putting people down, or aggrandizing myself, by doing so. I believe in rebirth, but that doesn't make me special, only ...
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What is Buddhism and who is Buddhist?
There was recently a question about chakras -- What are the original colors of the 7 main chakras? -- which, while not being particularly well asked, was closed with a raft of negative comments saying ...
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List of the "Greatest Hits"
I just discovered there's a "Greatest Hits" feature build into the site software:
https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/greatest-hits
I find it remarkable because I don't remember ...
ChrisWMod
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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How can I promote my Buddhist site, product or service?
I have my own Buddhism-related site/ Discord server/ Telegram group/ YouTube channel/ discussion forum/ Twitter channel/ Facebook group/ blog/ book/ product/ service etc. that is not directly related ...
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How are such non-answers ok? Flag declined!
I recently reported this answer and to my surprise the moderator saw no problem with this answer.
The reason for declining the flag was that "flags should not be used to indicate technical ...
user8527
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To protect the integrity of Buddhism, does BSE take any measures to prevent AI bots here?
Could be totally off base but due to quite peculiar syntax it seems some of the responses here could be derived via Artificial Intelligence. Even if this is not the case, to protect the integrity of ...
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A request to reopen a question
My understanding is that this is the "more liberal" moderation policy for this community:
Moderation policies for Questions
According to this "more liberal" moderation policy, I ...
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What to do if I am a victim of revenge downvotes?
If someone decides to go to many of my posts (answers or questions), and downvote all of them in revenge, what can I do?
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Is it appropriate for the same person to ask a question on the site and then use another account to answer it and mark it as answered?
It would appear that the person who asked this question using the account 'Alex Ryan' proceeded to answer his own question with another account 'Maitreya' and marked his own answer as correct. Is this ...
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If you are doubting of Abhidhamma so long, please keep those questions on, and ask whatever conflicts you think you found in Abhidhamma to me
If you are doubting of Abhidhamma so long, please keep those questions on, and ask whatever conflicts you think you found in Abhidhamma to me.
And I think to understand the main problem of the ...
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Importance of boundaries for community building
A community needs experts to thrive, these are few and far in between.
Occasionally i see new users who seem to know a lot and are experts or knowledgeable contributors.
Then i see some rude person ...
user8527
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I think the community should use the Theravada/Mahayana tag more if they don't want fringe answers
Basically, as the title says.
I think people should be made aware that if they don't tag their questions then they expose themselves to particularly controversial answers.
user8527
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SE does not award Vox Populi badge, even if I use 40 votes per day
This is regarding the Buddhism SE, not its Meta.
This happened both today and yesterday. I am new to this site and I went through a lot of questions yesterday and today, and upvoted a lot. Because of ...
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Does editing questions affect their position in the feed?
I've edited a question simply to put the title in lower case, and I noticed that the question appeared atop the home page for Buddhism. Am I to understand that every time I'd edit a question, it would ...
user7302
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Is puthujjana used as a pejorative on this site? Should that be allowed or should it be moderated?
I've noticed that often times on this site the term 'puthujjana' is being used as a pejorative in answers to passive aggressively insult others. Have others also noticed this? If so, should it be ...
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Where (what other forums) should I ask questions that don't quite meet the scope of Buddhism Stack Exchange?
A new contributor asked a great question a few days ago here:
How to develop fortitude?
The moderators closed the thread claiming it was not within the scope of this forum as defined by help center:
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What does a reputation deduction with the description “User was removed” mean?
I noticed this in my account this morning, and I would like to know what it means.
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I suggest moderators to be allowed to rule on what is and isn't Buddhism
There was recently a discussion about an answer not being "Buddhist", here in the commentary:
https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/a/44281/8527
I said that under the current policy moderators ...
user8527
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Would this question be OK
It may come off as truculent or trolling, but I'm genuinely interested!
In what way is Buddhism different in the West and in traditionally Buddhist nations?
Thanks
user20628
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What about comparative questions that require non-site specific expertise?
I have found a somewhat similar discussion here;
'Comparative religion' questions
Can we ban "comparative-religion" questions?
However i want to direct attention to a broader range ...
user8527
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Censoring the Zen tradition
I'm a bit dumbfounded as to why the mods deleted my comments in this chat. Koans are part of the Rinzai canon. Deleting them is favoring one sect over another.
https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/...
user19539
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2020 Moderator Election - Results
Buddhism's Election has come to a close! The new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as ...
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How should we use the "very low quality" and "not an answer" flags on this site?
Two of the predefined flags, which you can raise against an answer, are as follows:
What do they mean, when should users use them, and how or when should moderators react to them?
ChrisWMod
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Whom would you like to ask to help moderating here on BSE?
Since it's a tradition where task are asked by those who grateful like to make use of others sacrifices, and not a marxist tradition, good householder are possible good encouraged to ask and invite ...
user11235
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2020 Moderator Election - Announcement
Buddhism Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on October 5 to bring in one more moderator.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack Exchange....
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