The discourses that are literary works, the work of outsiders,

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@Gabriel_L

this is above all be a place for people to discuss translations of EBTs and, to a limited extent, doctrinal implications or curiosities of the words being translated.

Not true. This forum is above all a place to Discuss and Discover the suttas and the dhamma therein:

@sujato

General chat, opinions, or ideas about the sutta.

Use this to develop your practice of Right Speech. Learn how to engage, argue, support, concede, or persuade, all the time remembering that everyone else here is helping you to get Awakened!

Discussion Topics should not be wiki-ed. Your comments are your own.

Hence, I usually browse Discuss & Discover looking for anything related to the suttas and the dhamma. Not just essays by the authorities or technical discussions on pali grammar.

On the Watercooler:

@sujato

Come here for some friendly chat, and hang out with Dhamma friends. No worries.

This space is for informal, friendly discussion, whether on the suttas or not. It’s a place to support each other and make connections, not to prove a point. If things get too, well, logical, best move it into the normal Discussion category

So this forum is clearly not just confined to discussion of translations. If the intention is to change it to that, then we should see what @sujato thinks. I personally disagree with such an intention.

@Mat

If we make this only about translation I would find it boring and a waste of my time.

Exactly Mat. I think this forum is brilliant. There may be some posts that I disagree with, but people should still be free to have their say, especially when they are quoting suttas!