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I am a new user here at Buddhism.SE. What should I know before I post?
Welcome to Buddhism.SE!
We're glad you are here. Please take the time to read this post through. Whether you're here seeking answers to questions on Buddhism or to share your knowledge by answering ...
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Are we here to preach and make converts?
If you look at other SE sites like Programming, Travel, Parenting, Cooking, English Language, Gaming, Photography etc. - most of them are based on the idea of requesting, sharing and receiving expert ...
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May I share my research, by posting questions on this site and self-answering them?
I vote yes, because what the big difference between posting a sincere question and finding the answer your self ten days later and posting a sincere question and the answer immediately.
In the linked ...
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May I share my research, by posting questions on this site and self-answering them?
My vote would be "no": that this site is to ask questions and to get answers from other people.
Other SE sites allow people to answer their own questions -- but my personal vote/preference/...
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Moderation policies for Questions
This policy has two parts:
A long list of various reasons for which a question isn't moderated
A short list of other reasons for which a question should be moderated.
These kinds of question do not ...
ChrisWMod
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Answers vs Advice
In general, unless you actually are the questioner's teacher, don't assume a teacher's mantle. - I think that was a great line.
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When my answer is short, shall I post it as a comment instead?
No, ideally try instead to post an answer as an answer, not as a comment.
Comments are not made for answers: comment are mostly for asking for clarifications or for suggesting improvements to the ...
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Moderating answers which don't answer the question?
Regarding the answer given here, even though the question appears to limit answerers to materialists, it should be fine to answer any question in the site from a Buddhist perspective with information ...
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May I share my research, by posting questions on this site and self-answering them?
Unless the site's grammar police changed it, this site allows you to answer your own question but leave it open to other scientists with answers.
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Moderating answers which don't answer the question?
I've fallen foul of this as well. I deleted this zen type answer because it looked like nonsense to me. Apparently not - it is a legitimate form of answer so I reversed my delete.
If I can try to ...
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How do you vote?
I think I'm one of the most prolific voters on the site so I might be on the outer boundaries of this but ...
I vote a question up when (one or more of these is true)
I've answered it. If I'm ...
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How do you vote?
Glad to see this topic in Meta. I've seen people compliment each other on answers that had no votes. I've seen accepted answers that had no votes. Possibly downvotes are offsetting upvotes; but it ...
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How do you vote?
I upvote a question if:
I answer it
OR I don't answer it but I do want to read someone else's answer to it (my upvoting the question is a signal to other users that in my opinion this question is ...
ChrisWMod
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Are we here to preach and make converts?
I think that the correct answer is that we are not here to make converts or preach. The overarching goal of stackexchange is to give high quality, well sourced answers in a brief and convenient format....
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Are we here to preach and make converts?
No. I am hear to talk, discuss, and inform, those curious about Buddhism.
The culture and beliefs are of interest to me.
I have studied them for some time.
At one time I considered myself to be a ...
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How about a 'resource' tab?
What about amending the help page to include some useful resources? I've just found out that moderators can edit some of the sections. I've mocked up how the help page might look. This seems like a ...
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Moderating answers which don't answer the question?
Your example questions have the same theme: the askers asks about applying perspective A onto perspective B (e.g. 'Comparative religion' questions). They try to understand B from the point of ...
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Sectarian shout downs should be dealt with
Do we want to leave open answers and comments that do nothing to answer the question...
We're currently quite liberal, actually: if an answer does something to answer the question then it's likely to ...
ChrisWMod
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Answers vs Advice
Your example questions have the same theme: the askers asks about applying perspective A onto perspective B (e.g. 'Comparative religion' questions). They try to understand B from the point of ...
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