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  5. Posted · Edited by cheya
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    LOL, BES, I LOVE the sandbox analogy! 

    These guys just don't get it: it's not resistance to their ideas so much as their inability to "play nice with others" that gets them in trouble. So the sandbox is perfect.

     

    It's been said SO many times before, TDB is NOT  a democracy... It's a conversation in someone's living room, and there are RULES. If you cannot abide by the simple rules, please just go find some other parlor.

     

    These two are lucky I'm no longer a mod, as I would have given them BOTH 3 more days suspension just for this thread!!!!  Kar3n's balance, fairness and outright restraint as a mod are outstanding.  DB is totally lucky she is willing to mod for us. 

     

     

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    And then there are mulberries... O M G!

    There was a huge tree up in the pasture when I moved here... most amazing berries EVER...almost rival peaches!  

    But then, nothing really rivals peaches.

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    So seems a couple different issues here, which I am glad to be included, but which I hadn't originally intended. So I will clarify a bit what I'm talking about.

     

    Now if a troll starts a thread, I have no concerns about the funny reactions to, or outcome of, that thread. All good.

     

    What I was considering is a serious thread, started by someone in the general discussion area, where the OP has no control over the thread. The thread gets trolled by someone else, at which point some people chime in with very funny comments, which serve as distractions or detractions from the troll's comments.... and I often literally cheer when this happens! A few members here are particularly adept at this maneuver... and I totally appreciate it, especially in the absence of any other way to deal with it, barring warnings from mods.

     

    Sometimes, though, the line of humor lifts off on its own and goes on, even for pages... leaving the original intent of a serious thread in the dust. That makes me sad for the OP. They weren't "asking for it", they wanted to discuss something, and it just happened to push some troll's buttons.  Once in awhile someone does jump back in with an on-topic post, which I really appreciate... but often the original thread is just destroyed. Yeah, it's funny. Sometimes, often even, hysterically so!  But is it how we really want the board to go in this case?  Couldn't we keep track of the troll-trolling and self limit to support the OP? Or maybe it's not useful to get so attached to actually having a discussion... and to supporting each other in having that happen.

     

    More comments totally welcome! :)

     

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    Noticing a trend that is simultaneously funny and sad.

    Seems like a wave of troll-type entries in threads, which are met with humor by some of my very favorite posters (you know who you are! :D) And of course I laugh too.

     

    But then I wonder about the way these strings of funny comments also derail and dilute the thread, and how the original poster must feel about what has happened to their thread. Makes me sad. 

     

    Curious what others think/feel about this. Has it happened to a thread you're serious/sincere about?

     

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  19. Posted · Edited by cheya

    So interesting. I have never interpreted the words in this chapter to mean the sage was in any way unhappy or dissatisfied with his condition (quite the contrary actually)....  Just that he would appear so when viewed from the outside through the common cultural distortions and filters...

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     Feng Zhiqiang's method on DVD from Fengming Wang (his son in law) might be what you are looking for.

     

    The Australian's claim their method is a direct transmission from Master Feng. Did you read this whole thread?