Suggestions

[martinfrank]

Hi!

I am reading the Dhamma Wheel posts often. It is a worthwhile forum. I understand that it is the result of a lot of unpaid work. Thank you for Dhamma Wheel!

Here my suggestions how to improve it and to open it to a wider audience.

1. Being a Buddhist for more than 40 years, I am shocked if I read post by Moderators with rude expressions (shit, crap). Didn't Lord Buddha admonish us to speak gentle words, pleasing to the listener?

2. I believe the forum would become more welcoming if Moderators would focus on moderating rather than on answering/commenting. Moderators who comment every post, particularly with a final, closing the discussion, post, subvert the forum idea. As an old Buddhist I understand the urge to be impatient with the same questions and topics coming up again and again. But then haven't our teachers been patient with us too?

Thanks and greetings

Martin

[tiltbillings]

See: http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.ph ... 39#p290396

[TheNoBSBuddhist]

I'm.....



....Saying nothing.

(ADDED: Except that I pull no punches. See thread linked to by tiltbillings.)

[SDC]

Why are moderators being held to a standard which is above their responsibilities as moderators? They aren’t claiming to teachers. They aren’t claiming to expert scholars. They aren’t advertising any attainments. They are here to enforce the rules of the forum, not the vinaya, and not any of the precepts. Am I wrong? They are free to discuss just like any other member, and you will see in the other thread, that they will not moderate in a thread in which they are engaged, which I feel is fair. If they act like humans, it is because they are, and I see NO reason to force them to act like phony statues, pretending to be something they’re not. Could some mods be nicer sometimes? I guess, but their behavior shouldn't have any bearing on our individual practices. This is a place to discuss the dhamma, but it will never be free from the ordinary characteristics of the world, and if that means having moderators that occasionally get a little rowdy and overbearing then so be it. That is the world. Gives the place some flavor, if you ask me.