Tolerance and sympathy is always encouraged, and let's always assume good faith from posters but lately we've been getting a lot of unwanted attention from gatekeepers and rude people. In other words "uncivil behavior" people.

Do as you please but don't let them get the best of you, because they eventually might. It's a part of the world and my intent is that this sub shouldn't be a bubble, because it'll make a stronger community if we all learn to deal with them, thus making moderation just a formality. This is of course referring to minor violations to the rules... People just plainly disregarding any respect towards others will get booted with or without warning.

And also a reminder that moderation here is slow but sure. I'll check it eventually and handle what must be handled. If you feel like something escaped my sight after a few days, please send a chat request or a mod message.

Hello,
hope you are having a great day.

I've made a few updates to the rules and added three more rules. This update focuses on user accountability.

The changes are as follow:

• Rule 2: This rule was updated for better grammar. There are no big changes here.
• Rule 4: This rule allows Zen to be posted in the subreddit. It also clarifies now that although it's still allowed, you shouldn't mush together Zen and Chán as even tho related, they are their own thing.
• Three rules were added: 7. Quotes must include clear sources, 8. You must clearly differentiate when giving your opinion, 9. Marginal infractions. You can read the descriptions on the sidebar before continuing this post, since the rest of this assumes you have read them after this point.
• Rule 7: This rule is to prevent users from passing made up content as dharma or a teacher's discourse and to make moderation of such content easy, since mods shouldn't be expected to be full time scholars nor use their time looking up for things. It will require minimum effort from the posters, and save a lot of effort to the readers and mods.
• Rule 8: Sometimes we tend to make a big mix of: our opinion, what we think a teacher/sutra/book says, what they actually say, what we think dharma is, what we say it is, and what it is... in my experience this can add up to make a very hostile discussion and environments online, which can be easily avoided by the courtesy of differentiating them. So this rule is meant to discourage such situations.
• Rule 9: This is mostly self explanatory, but it's sadly a necessary rule. Sometimes users don't like rules and try to circumvent them any way they can, so the rule is to clearly state that if a mod perceives it to be happening it'll be treated as an infraction of the rule it was trying to circumvent.

I try to have as few rules as possible and to keep them as simple and direct as possible.

The new rules' repercussion will be gradually implemented to give time for everyone to adapt in the following month. In this time warnings, mostly, will be handled.

The degree at which the rules are applied of course will be proportional to the degree of disruption a user is creating in the community. The bigger the claims, the more scrutiny will be.

Comments about this are of course welcomed, only in this thread, as long as you understand that suggestions are always accepted but the rules by themselves are not "up to discussion".

Anyway, this is the third time I wrote this, because of cats on keyboard and an unfortunate series of hot keys being pressed, so sorry if the redaction suffered because of it. Hope you keep having a great day and I thank you for making this one of the subreddits you liked enough to sub to and/or participate in it.