Quote from: Garraty_47 on December 03, 2025, 08:29:58 AMFlaming =/= Trolling

Back in the day I often had "Trollsbane" as part of my nym because the only demographic flamers liked to insult more than each other was trolls.

I know, I know... definitions evolve and that word 'flaming' does not mean what you think it means (inconceivable!) but I felt I had to throw that out there just to put it on the record. Again. LoL

You are not the first person to defend flaming.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on Today at 12:02:41 AMPeople like that suck all of the entertainment out of the boards

This is why I never approve Edward's guest posts.

Quote from: DKG on Today at 07:38:13 AMYou are not the first person to defend flaming.

Most of the content on the internet/youtube ect is ragebait where a person "flames" this or that.

Quote from: It's Poppy on Today at 09:59:41 AMMost of the content on the internet/youtube ect is ragebait where a person "flames" this or that.

Yeah, but almost all of them suck at it.
Grievances, complaints, drama, tribalism, and propaganda delivered in whichever voice they think will get them the most clicks (providing of course they haven't simply been paid up front to push a narrative).

Thbbbft.

Quote from: Shen Li on December 03, 2025, 11:51:25 PMI was like that on the old Asian forums and continued when I joined DV. That changed after it folded and VF picked up all it's refugees.

There was and still is a creepy little twerp of a man(Edweird) who lives on that forum 24/7/365. He gets his sick jollies contacting people's employers, giving horrible reviews of their businesses and destroying careers. It got so bad at VF with Eddie taking shit offline that a dozen or so of us left and founded the original version of this forum.

What we do here is for entertainment. None of us were going to risk our livelihoods over this goofiness. VF was a busy forum in 2012, but it never recovered from the owner's refusal to ban somebody who continuously broke basic forum etiquette.

My point here is that I've seen what the kind of threats Martini made can do. I take it pretty seriously.

The RCMP have visited Eddie the chug at his tiny one bedroom apartment more than once for his online activities.