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Posted by Garraty_47
- Today at 01:19:46 PMQuote from: DKG on Today at 06:51:57 AMFlaming seems incompatible with this medium. Flaming is about attacking the anonymous person and not their post. How do you do that when you don't know them.
It was actually the opposite of that.
Originally "flaming" just meant textually humiliating someone, usually after they had posted something incredibly stupid or simply inaccurate. A lot of academics and scientists engaged in "flaming" either in defense of particular theories/issues or to dispute/discredit them.
Then people realized "flaming" could actually be *fun* for participants and bystanders alike. Thus was born the genre or perhaps a better word is subculture of "flaming" and "flamers".
Because the people in various "flame communities" inevitably got to know more about each other over time (and often got along quite well 'behind the scenes') it wasn't uncommon to see references to personal details, often exaggerated or caricatured to the point of silliness. There were lots of inside jokes that outsiders either didn't notice at all or completely misunderstood.
But it was rare to see genuine "flamers" attack each other with personal information or to dox each other. Aside from the potential for mutually assured destruction (the target likely knows enough information to return the favor) it was also considered rude and lacking finesse.
It was a performance art; entertaining each other and the audience was almost the whole point. I mean yeah, there was an element of one-upsmanship or bragging rights or whatever you want to call it. However scorched-earth tactics and puerile insults only became a thing later, when people who couldn't do anything else shoved their way into the spaces and colonized them by making the spaces insufferable to those whose humor wasn't limited to sexual orientation and/or bodily functions.
What we have now (and have had for a loooong time) isn't "flaming"; it's a bastardization of the original phenomenon.
Posted by knows things
- Today at 11:41:24 AMQuote from: DKG on Today at 06:51:57 AMFlaming seems incompatible with this medium. Flaming is about attacking the anonymous person and not their post. How do you do that when you don't know them.I'm not surprised you're finding it incompatible, your understanding of what constitutes flaming misses the fundamental core component of what made flaming a success on forums like Flame4Cash.
You don't need to know someone to flame them, you just need to be adept at inventing ridiculously tautological and politically incorrect prose describing them as a flaming homosexual. That's it. That's all it ever was. Anyone that pretends otherwise is only doing so to leverage some imagined "talent" they may possess to gain an advantage, likely because they are deficient in penning humourous and original homoerotic rhetoric of their own, or because they (mistakenly) think the aim is all about beating an opponent instead of getting all present (including the opponent preferably) to piss themselves laughing at just how hopelessly gay they supposedly are.
You couldn't do that here, you certainly couldn't do it at Bastard Factory. Totally the wrong audience and far too many present who would take mortal insult from it and respond from a platform of hate and anger. In a society that expects the printed word to be the truth and anything else an excuse to deplatform and destroy, that's already so far off the reservation it doesn't even bear thinking about.
Posted by caskur
- Today at 10:45:58 AMDKG
it's about creative writing, aggression and wit and bragging rights.
Flame vvv
Wipe your mouth Soulbro, there is still a tiny bit of shit around your lips.
Insult vvv
You are such a big fat Bullshitter Soulbro.
it's about creative writing, aggression and wit and bragging rights.Flame vvv
Wipe your mouth Soulbro, there is still a tiny bit of shit around your lips.
Insult vvv
You are such a big fat Bullshitter Soulbro.
Posted by caskur
- Today at 10:25:28 AMQuote from: DKG on Today at 06:51:57 AMTrolling is dead. Joe is in denial about that.
Flaming seems incompatible with this medium. Flaming is about attacking the anonymous person and not their post. How do you do that when you don't know them.
Don't mix up flaming and insulting...
If you go to famous people and find insulting quotes say... it's close to flaming... when I eat my low calorie pineapple jelly I will give you an example.
Posted by DKG
- Today at 07:03:54 AMQuote from: deport_liberals on Today at 07:02:13 AMFlynn has shown us. Make up 2 or 3 things and repeat them for 5 to 7 years.And bore everybody to tears with it.
Posted by deport_liberals
- Today at 07:02:13 AMQuote from: DKG on Today at 06:51:57 AMTrolling is dead. Joe is in denial about that.
Flaming seems incompatible with this medium. Flaming is about attacking the anonymous person and not their post. How do you do that when you don't know them.
Flynn has shown us. Make up 2 or 3 things and repeat them for 5 to 7 years.
Posted by DKG
- Today at 06:51:57 AMQuote from: caskur on Today at 04:58:55 AMForget it... they don't get it... these days the trolls are nothing more than nasty wet blankets.Trolling is dead. Joe is in denial about that.
I should start flaming and light a fire up their arses.
Flaming seems incompatible with this medium. Flaming is about attacking the anonymous person and not their post. How do you do that when you don't know them.
Posted by Garraty_47
- Today at 06:46:52 AMQuote from: Oliver the Second on October 15, 2024, 10:37:43 PMReading Flynn's posts remind me of the old alt.flame Usenet groups and the old flamer boards, I would read those and laugh my ass off all night. There was some real funny stuff in there. Shame it all faded away but I'm glad I was there to see it.
I remember The 2-Belo's ownage of Maryanne "Loafhead" Kehoe when it turned out the person she was emailing in an attempt to get The 2-Belo fired from his job was in fact The 2-Belo himself.
That was pure 100% lulz.
Posted by caskur
- Today at 04:59:51 AMQuote from: Frood on October 15, 2024, 11:08:27 PMSome of us liked to taunt usenet users back in the day.
And webtv dorks...
Silent Prowler was a webtv guy....lol
Posted by caskur
- Today at 04:58:55 AMQuote from: Oliver the Second on October 15, 2024, 10:37:43 PMReading Flynn's posts remind me of the old alt.flame Usenet groups and the old flamer boards, I would read those and laugh my ass off all night. There was some real funny stuff in there. Shame it all faded away but I'm glad I was there to see it.
Forget it... they don't get it... these days the trolls are nothing more than nasty wet blankets.
I should start flaming and light a fire up their arses.
Posted by Frood
- October 15, 2024, 11:08:27 PMSome of us liked to taunt usenet users back in the day.
And webtv dorks...
And webtv dorks...
Posted by Oliver the Second
- October 15, 2024, 10:37:43 PMQuote from: caskur on October 15, 2024, 01:02:25 PMLook people.. Flynns from the flame forums ... the fun groups where flinging excrement at each other was mandatory.
Reading Flynn's posts remind me of the old alt.flame Usenet groups and the old flamer boards, I would read those and laugh my ass off all night. There was some real funny stuff in there. Shame it all faded away but I'm glad I was there to see it.
Posted by Lab Flaker
- October 15, 2024, 05:05:45 PMQuote from: caskur on October 15, 2024, 02:48:07 PMWell since just before Flynn left BF, I HAVE HARDLY SEEN Flynn... she came here then disappeared... she is a better read than the other idiots at BF.
It's a bloke. And not a very smart one at that.
He's not well-versed or even very original in his delivery.
He's just used the same angsty, post-pubescent formula, over and over for the past decade... mostly of which are snippets of other trolls' phrases combined into a seething mess of verbal dysentery and dysfunction.
Same old shit...just a different smell.
PS: someone needs to use a toilet brush to get him around the S-bend! Lulz.
Posted by Frood
- October 15, 2024, 04:45:39 PMFlynn is a man, man...
Several of them..
Several of them..
Posted by Lokmar
- October 15, 2024, 04:35:21 PMQuote from: caskur on October 15, 2024, 02:48:07 PMWell since just before Flynn left BF, I HAVE HARDLY SEEN Flynn... she came here then disappeared... she is a better read than the other idiots at BF.
Flynn is a dude.