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Re: Who hasn't been badly flamed?
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:22:10AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>From: Christopher Faylor
>>Sent: 07 September 2005 04:35
>> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:25:50PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote:
>>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>>Anyway, I think that's because good flamers are (a) somewhat
>>>thick-skinned, and (b) recognize the intent behind other good flames.
>>
>>I don't think that good flamers are thick-skinned. IMO, it's probably
>>the opposite. They have hair triggers and a lot of time on their
>>hands.
>
>Actually, I think there's a distinct taxonomy here. Many (perhaps
>most) flamers are indeed hair-trigger kooks with emotional deficits.
>But quite a few are actually more trying to be
>comedians/writers/psychologists/con-artists in a collected, lucid and
>far more calmly rational way than their more emotionally-driven
>cousins.
>
>Or IOW, flamers are all either Kooks or Trolls! ;-P~
Yep.
*pause*
I mean, Hey! Wait a minute! :-)
It occurs to me that we are all undoubtedly working from different
definitions of the word flame.
I was going to offer a definition of what I think a flame is, but then
it occurred to me that wikipedia is probably a good reference. And, it
is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming
This is interesting stuff, IMO.
cgf