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Minor Dizaster
11-21-2003, 06:59 PM
I do not know what flaming is. It's against the rules, that's all I know. Someone please explain it to me, and don't hate me because I'm stupid.
Gramcrackered
11-21-2003, 09:03 PM
Basically? Insulting somebody more than called for.

I could try to explain it better than that, but dinner calls.
Minor Dizaster
11-21-2003, 09:41 PM
Thank you, Gramcrackered, I am forever in your debt.
synkr0nized
11-21-2003, 09:52 PM
2 more cents adding.... now: Essentially, just use common sense when considering the line between criticism/debate and outright insults and the like.

Like, if I came into this thread and called your mother a whore and proclaimed that you were stupid for not knowing what it is to begin with - that would be uncessary and flaming.
Minor Dizaster
11-21-2003, 09:57 PM
Hah! You tell ME to use common sense? I laugh at your silliness!
Whitemage
11-22-2003, 01:03 AM
Ok, here's a good example..

Say I say something is defence of George W. Bush.

Then someone replies simply saying "Bush sucks". This is not flamming, but rather trolling.

If I then reply "You suck." I'm "feeding the troll" as we forum goers call it and thus is the beggining of a perhaps long tedious flame war.

I only insult people when I have no respect for them in the first place, and I don't give respect, you have to earn it, but I give newbies like yourself the bennefit of the doubt. I find the future of any forum in the hands of newbies..
synkr0nized
11-22-2003, 01:19 AM
Well said, indeed.
Tommathy
11-22-2003, 01:46 AM
Basically, act unto others as you would act to them in person.

The internet seems to make people think that they can be assholes to people they wouldn't be assholes to in real life.
Whitemage
11-22-2003, 02:01 AM
Basically, act unto others as you would act to them in person.

The internet seems to make people think that they can be assholes to people they wouldn't be assholes to in real life.
Yep.

And just like in real life.. I'm either a nice guy who can be your friend, your advisor, and your rival in video games.

Or I could be the guy that craps on your face. But that descision is completely up to you.. XP
Neverwhere
11-22-2003, 03:55 AM
Wow, im the same way WM
Mashirosen
11-22-2003, 05:35 AM
What an astonishing coinky-dink.

Anyway, question answered, Minor Dizaster? :)