A message to Chinese members, what's your opinion about the model?

[jkroo]

@jkroo
Are you doing a research on the behavoural trends of forumers by categorising them into yi-jing‘s principles? or you are using 易经 to define forumers' behaviours?

Some of the characters of the forumers can be overlapping 理性者 and 平和着； 极端者 and 诋毁者 etc

I spent two hours to built it for @Taihang post a thread. Yes, I am using some principles of 易经. My target is to build a model to help our people to figure the role out of various participants and the method to deal with problems.

About each character, I think there is a 度 and I should choose some independent variables to build equations and select some samples to verify it if the accuracy problem concerned. Thats a time consuming work and I am a lazy man to do such work.

This model is far from complete. Could you propose more advices?

 

[jkroo]

For one, I really like your description of rational individuals, the calm individual, emotional individual and the extreme individual. I agree with you that the emotional and extreme individual can become emotionally unstable and allow their feelings to shape their thoughts and postings. I would even expand this and say that the emotional and extreme individual both show no consideration of the feelings of the person whom they're discoursing with. In that respect, when one is fueled by passion and emotion, coherence thought can be minimized by one's blind rage. This is how trolling happens, and this does not nurture a learning environment.

The problem is when a person come to a online forum he already have a relative stable view for value and the world especially an adult. Also, I am not focusing on the change patterns of the participants. You see, almost nobody changed during his stay in a online forum. The change patterns should be included but it's not an important message to our boys.

I hold the position that in the online discussion format, we should be more like the two persons whom you have identified: the rational individual and the calm individual. Both are are able to control their emotions, both participate. And contribution may be more qualitative. By adopting this kind of posting behavior, this cultivates and nurtures a learning environment, and a transfer of information amongst peoples of varied backgrounds, nationalities, political backgrounds et al.

You hold a good discussion format. In your mentioned aspects, I agree with you. Internal quality and external quality could be included four factors that lead to a stable view of an individual. In a online forum, you just can't change it and that's why the change patterns is not the priority I mentioned above.

To quote Kong Zi, "The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."

So if you can't change other people, you should change yourself. This is called "道法自然". First, you should identify various people with characters. Second, you should find a way to communicate with them.

I think you should consider it deeper. If you have done some research about Chinese culture you will know that Kong Zi and Lao Zi were interpreters of 易经 and they also comprehend it and hence create different phylosophies. That's why I said 易经 is the source of Chinese culture.