hilary
July 23rd, 2009, 10:27 AM
Vision
The I Ching Community is a warm and open place for free, wide-ranging exploration of the I Ching. It’s a place to learn about and from this oracle, through experience, one reading at a time. We respect the desire to learn, and honour the potential for growth in not knowing.
I asked Yi what the highest potential of this community is. It replied with Hexagram 4, Not Knowing, changing at the fifth line to Hexagram 59, Dispersing.
Welcome to the Community of Not Knowing!
The rule
As befits such a place, there are not many rules.
A huge diversity of ideas is welcomed and encouraged here, and so is vigorous debate about them all. In all this, please respect other members as individuals, and don’t post personal abuse, flaming, belittling, ‘diagnoses’ of their character flaws, etc.
A suggestion
If something about the way you do readings is unfamiliar to most members (eg the method, the text), please edit your signature to include a link to an explanation. (You can always write this yourself in Exploring Divination.)
Another suggestion
When you post a reading here in Shared Readings, please include your own response to it, too. Then you're really sharing your reading - which is your conversation with Yi (the I Ching) - and not just the numbers.
No need to write a book (though you can if you like, of course ;) ): just jot a few things down. For instance... does anything in the answer sound familiar? Feel right - or wrong? If a friend had given you this answer, what would you say to them?
Also, you don't need to be some kind of expert for this. I think it's even an advantage, sometimes, not to be: you don't have a freight of existing ideas to carry round, so you're free to see your reading with clear eyes. Then other members can benefit from your unique perspective, and you benefit from centring yourself in your own sense of the reading - engaging with it as yours, not just some lines on a page - before you open it up to others' thoughts.
How you can help
Use the new ‘thanks’ button! (This one, next to the 'reply' button under each post: http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/images/buttons/post_thanks.gif)
If you post a reading for comment, please come back and post feedback on how things worked out.
If you see a post that seems to you to break the rule, you could…
report the post by clicking the little red triangle icon http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/images/buttons/report.gif above it, and/or
respond to the person who posted it yourself
But please remember that discussing other members’ behaviour is off-topic for the main forums. Don’t post a retort on the same thread. If there’s something you want to say, start a thread in the “Moderation” forum (http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/forumdisplay.php?f=50) and say it there; then return to the original thread and post nothing but a link to your “Moderation” thread.
How post reporting works (what to expect)
The report is emailed to me and to our moderators with the message from the ‘reporter’. No-one else sees that the report has been made (and it stays anonymous).
A moderator visits the thread, reads it through and considers what to do next.
The reported post almost certainly won’t be deleted outright (because this is a conversation between adults). It may be moved to the “Moderation” sub-forum in Open Space, where anyone who’s interested can reply.
The moderator may also contact the original poster with an explanation and/or warning. If someone persistently makes posts that break the rule, I'll suspend them from the forum for a ‘cooling off’ period of a week or more, or until any apologies needed are made.
(The other moderators will move posts and send private notes, and refer things on to me if it comes to suspension.)
If you disagree with a moderator's decision you can ask them about it politely, or you can email me to protest. But sending personal abuse to moderators for doing their job is not tolerated, and incurs a one-week suspension right away.
A note about deleting posts (because sometimes people ask me to delete their posts after the ‘editing’ period on them has expired)
You own the copyright in what you post here, and you grant Clarity a license to publish it here on the website. This means I have the final say on whether or not messages are deleted or moved once they’re posted here.
The I Ching Community is a warm and open place for free, wide-ranging exploration of the I Ching. It’s a place to learn about and from this oracle, through experience, one reading at a time. We respect the desire to learn, and honour the potential for growth in not knowing.
I asked Yi what the highest potential of this community is. It replied with Hexagram 4, Not Knowing, changing at the fifth line to Hexagram 59, Dispersing.
Welcome to the Community of Not Knowing!
The rule
As befits such a place, there are not many rules.
A huge diversity of ideas is welcomed and encouraged here, and so is vigorous debate about them all. In all this, please respect other members as individuals, and don’t post personal abuse, flaming, belittling, ‘diagnoses’ of their character flaws, etc.
A suggestion
If something about the way you do readings is unfamiliar to most members (eg the method, the text), please edit your signature to include a link to an explanation. (You can always write this yourself in Exploring Divination.)
Another suggestion
When you post a reading here in Shared Readings, please include your own response to it, too. Then you're really sharing your reading - which is your conversation with Yi (the I Ching) - and not just the numbers.
No need to write a book (though you can if you like, of course ;) ): just jot a few things down. For instance... does anything in the answer sound familiar? Feel right - or wrong? If a friend had given you this answer, what would you say to them?
Also, you don't need to be some kind of expert for this. I think it's even an advantage, sometimes, not to be: you don't have a freight of existing ideas to carry round, so you're free to see your reading with clear eyes. Then other members can benefit from your unique perspective, and you benefit from centring yourself in your own sense of the reading - engaging with it as yours, not just some lines on a page - before you open it up to others' thoughts.
How you can help
Use the new ‘thanks’ button! (This one, next to the 'reply' button under each post: http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/images/buttons/post_thanks.gif)
If you post a reading for comment, please come back and post feedback on how things worked out.
If you see a post that seems to you to break the rule, you could…
report the post by clicking the little red triangle icon http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/images/buttons/report.gif above it, and/or
respond to the person who posted it yourself
But please remember that discussing other members’ behaviour is off-topic for the main forums. Don’t post a retort on the same thread. If there’s something you want to say, start a thread in the “Moderation” forum (http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/forumdisplay.php?f=50) and say it there; then return to the original thread and post nothing but a link to your “Moderation” thread.
How post reporting works (what to expect)
The report is emailed to me and to our moderators with the message from the ‘reporter’. No-one else sees that the report has been made (and it stays anonymous).
A moderator visits the thread, reads it through and considers what to do next.
The reported post almost certainly won’t be deleted outright (because this is a conversation between adults). It may be moved to the “Moderation” sub-forum in Open Space, where anyone who’s interested can reply.
The moderator may also contact the original poster with an explanation and/or warning. If someone persistently makes posts that break the rule, I'll suspend them from the forum for a ‘cooling off’ period of a week or more, or until any apologies needed are made.
(The other moderators will move posts and send private notes, and refer things on to me if it comes to suspension.)
If you disagree with a moderator's decision you can ask them about it politely, or you can email me to protest. But sending personal abuse to moderators for doing their job is not tolerated, and incurs a one-week suspension right away.
A note about deleting posts (because sometimes people ask me to delete their posts after the ‘editing’ period on them has expired)
You own the copyright in what you post here, and you grant Clarity a license to publish it here on the website. This means I have the final say on whether or not messages are deleted or moved once they’re posted here.