  Online social networks, which are remarkably active, often experience
explosive user dynamics such as online flaming, which can significantly impact
the real world. However, countermeasures based on social analyses of the
individuals causing flaming are too slow to be effective because of the
rapidity with which the influence of online user dynamics propagates. A
countermeasure technology for the flaming phenomena based on the oscillation
model, which describes online user dynamics, has been proposed; it is an
immediate solution as it does not depend on social analyses of individuals.
Conventional countermeasures based on the oscillation model assume that the
damping coefficient is a constant regardless of the eigenfrequency. This
assumption is, however, problematic as the damping coefficients are, in
general, inherently frequency-dependent; the theory underlying the dependence
is being elucidated. This paper discusses a design method that uses the damping
coefficient to prevent flaming under general conditions considering the
frequency-dependence of the damping coefficient and proposes a countermeasure
technology for the flaming phenomena.
