Has The Tao Bums become (B)anal?

[soaring crane]

too attracted to the masturbation thread? Masturbation = Taobums

 

 

you clicked it?

 

 

[voidisyinyang]

Just because someone talks about me vis a vis their masturbation addiction doesn't mean masturbation has anything to do with Taoism.

 

I just see no connection between Japanese porn stars and Taoism -- I'm glad the thread was vanished. I also see no connection between masturbation and Taoism. Sure if it was in the "Off Topics" forum -- that would be fine. The "hot female photos" thread was in the off topic section.

 

If someone wants to go on and on about how they like to masturbate then put it in the Off Topics thread.

[Bum Grasshopper]

What about the Taoist principal of wu wei? Must the mods forcibly take action, or will things take care of themselves?

 

Hmmm.

[Jack Runner]

We could call it THE MASS DEBATE.

 

 

Hahahahahah!

[Mokona]

I use online forums to discuss, learn, and network. Sometimes its fun to poke at others but regardless of how it may seem I've at least been able to learn a bit via PM and inquiry.

 

When threads become havens for those who enjoy whining and calling names I feel it is most efficient to move conversations into the realm of email or pm anyway. Thanks to everyone who has given me advice or is going to let me send them reiki in the hopefully near future.

[voidisyinyang]

Yeah or at least masturbate if you have a problem.

 

Why taobums needs to be hacked:

 

http://www.disinfo.com/2010/01/why-the-ipad-must-be-hacked-to-prevent-crap-futurism/

 

I use online forums to discuss, learn, and network. Sometimes its fun to poke at others but regardless of how it may seem I've at least been able to learn a bit via PM and inquiry.

 

When threads become havens for those who enjoy whining and calling names I feel it is most efficient to move conversations into the realm of email or pm anyway. Thanks to everyone who has given me advice or is going to let me send them reiki in the hopefully near future.

[Mal]

Well the thread about the Japanese porn star got disappeared but the masturbation thread remains.

 

Drew, a bit like your famous thread, I'm being banned from Taobums, when you were actually just asked 2 times to stop spaming the lobby and informed you would be suspended if you kept doing it. The conclusions you make may not = reality

 

The only reason that thread turned into porn was you flooded the board with replys with you tube links untill you found a nude titty video of the person involved

[Mal]

Oh no, governement like propaganda. They're deceptively trying to make you spy and rat on each other. Nobody listen! Fight the power!

 

Just kidding. Sort of.

Well I though that too and I posted it

 

But the place is just too big now, the moderators have broad areas of interests but we just can't read everything not sure how else we could do it and that's what the report button does, it's flags the reported threads, bringing them to our attention.

 

Personally I would rather have the community doing reporting that policing threads ourselves.

[Biff]

Drew, a bit like your famous thread, I'm being banned from Taobums, when you were actually just asked 2 times to stop spaming the lobby and informed you would be suspended if you kept doing it. The conclusions you make may not = reality

 

The only reason that thread turned into porn was you flooded the board with replys with you tube links untill you found a nude titty video of the person involved

 

Titty? oh I must have missed that one. Will have to dig... but then it's Friday and I'm bout to get my pole smoked so perhaps tomorrow.

[Mal]

Didn't miss anything, I've got porn orders of magnitude better in my not worth watching collection.

 

But it's not here

[Eric23]

All my life's a circle

Sunrise and Sundown

Moon rolls thru the nighttime;

Till the daybreak comes around.

 

Harry Chapin

 

 

It's been this way for the entire time I've been hanging out here (3-4 years at least). We just happen to have a relatively new member asking questions about masturbation, and things got a little bit out of control.

 

Blasto, when I first read the masturbation and carburation post I just about spewed my tea all over the keyboard

 

I always find it interesting that the complaints come from newer members. What you're seeing now is nothing compared to the Sean Denty discussions a few years ago or, Lord help us, RJ at his worst. Give it a few weeks and the discussion will settle down just like it always does.

[Old Man Contradiction]

I've been here, since early '08 under different names, which isn't that long. But I disagree with you Eric23, I think that the vast majority of information on TTB is and, for the most part, always was misinterpretation.

Edited January 30, 2010 by Old Man Contradiction

[Pero]

The only reason that thread turned into porn was you flooded the board with replys with you tube links untill you found a nude titty video of the person involved

 

Who was the person involved?

 

And it was just titty video? Come on man, that's not porn. You're not an American who moved to Australia are you?

[Mal]

Rofl no just trying to follow Sean's guidelines. And prevent this place turning into the style project.

 

As to changes over time some people may enjoy the little wordle experiment I've been doing

 

Wordle - generated from the RSS feed usually around the end of every month {except for 2010 - new year}

ThatTaoBumsNov

ThatTaoBumsDec

ThatTaoBums2010

ThatTaoBumsJan

 

To be more useful, rather than just "arty", I would need a text dump for the entire month. So this is more like a snapshot on a given day.

[三江源]

Ok, Trunk. I will report stuff that I find offensive. I do have that parent figure in me which is very active, and yet is also a somewhat fatigued parent who comes here to be off duty and even get to be the child.

 

I fully agree with Drew about the masturbation stuff. And yes, it was funny to log in and find a slew of spin off masturbation threads in the 'new content' list and yet it made taobums a much less special place, less worth coming to, because it was generic internet message board behaviour, and not taoist in any way.

 

How about thinking about the qi of the board, the shen of the board, when you post, and see it as part of your practice, to be here.

[Nanashi]

How about thinking about the qi of the board, the shen of the board, when you post, and see it as part of your practice, to be here.

 

 

A wonderful sentiment.

[Stigweard]

How about thinking about the qi of the board, the shen of the board, when you post, and see it as part of your practice, to be here.

A wonderful sentiment.

 

So wonderful that I thought I would immortalize it over in our Guidelines http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?/topic/11707-moderation-guidelines/

 

[Apech]

 

How about thinking about the qi of the board, the shen of the board, when you post, and see it as part of your practice, to be here.

 

Very good and very sobering.

 

Lets not forget good humour as well - I think its part of self regulation - i.e. gentle leg pulling is ok.

[Smile]

TTB is like a Tornainbow....

 

[Pero]

edit: oops

[Sloppy Zhang]

I think another overall thing (issue? Not really the right word...) with the board is conflicting goals-

 

For example, in my psychic powers thread, a lot of people come in mentioning, "oh well this won't get you to enlightenment." In the Jerry Alan Johnson thread, people come in and start throwing around "what is kundalini awakening?" When people make a kundalini thread, people come in and are like, "kundalini rising isn't what enlightenment is".

 

Everybody has an opinion, which is okay, but people express that opinion EVERYWHERE even when it is not warranted. And you know, to some extent it is helpful, it keeps you grounded. It lets you know, "hey, there are other paths and ideas out there, maybe I should look into them."

 

But then people get drawn into long conflicts, arguing over who has more authority to speak on some subject than someone else, egos get in the way, yadda yadda.

 

I dunno, just stuff I've been thinking about as I've gone through posts.

 

On top of the old forum there was that paragraph that was like, "open for discussion about all forms of spiritual seeking" then listed a bunch of things like taoism, buddhism, western magic, occult, martial arts, etc. Is that still around somewhere? Is there a way to bring back that general message?

 

Even though it is the taobums, there are 36 million passes to the tao, right?