Why would a question about a Lin-Chi quote removed for a violation?
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
Lin-Chi
This was posted in R&S and I was asking opinions and how one might relate to it spiritually.
Do you find it offensive and/or not related to, at least, many peoples personal views of Spirituality?
I’m wondering because I have had several questions removed lately even though I try very hard to keep within Y/A TOS.
Thanks!
You said it yourself. You were asking for opinions, which is great in a chat room, but a violation for chatting on YA. Questions must ask for facts, not just opinions.
Chat is defined in the YA Community Guidelines (link at bottom of every page). There are specific things listed that you may not think are chat, but Yahoo defines it that way and you have to live with it. You should go to the site dizzay.com and see what a YA type site looks like when chat is allowed.
Just stay away from questions that simply ask people’s personal opinion or personal information. Those can sometimes be ok, but most of the time they are chat. Stick with questions that only ask for facts, figures, and data like a teacher might ask in school. You can ask for example Paris Hilton’s age, but you can’t ask what people thought of her dress. You can ask “What is a good SUV for a big family?”, but not “What type of SUV do you drive?”.
Chatting is asking questions that can only be answered with personal opinion and to which only you and the answerer will give a hoot. You can tell most of these by the presence of pronouns (I,we,you,me,us) or pronoun adjectives (your,mine,ours). If these are present your question will be chat 90% of the time and if you can not rewrite the question without them, it is chat 99% of the time.
People have different takes on violations, but I hope you will reread the community guidelines for other types of questions that are not allowed and specifically spelled out such as Fill in the Blank questions (link at the bottom of the page).
GM Chiu Chi Lin demonstrating a Hung Kuen Form
