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When does a discussion thread become a flame war?

Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
edited June 2008 in Flamewars
I say it is down to personal preference.
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  • AndrewAndrew
    It usually occurs when the posters just sling ad hominem attacks and strawmen instead of actually discussing the issues.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    edited June 2008
    I'd say the sure mark of a flame war [not way] is when there are at least five, one like line quotes in a single post; all of which are refuted without forming a counter argument of the part of the replier.
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  • ErynEryn
    edited June 2008
    Question: is this about what marks a flame war anywhere on the internet, or what marks a flame war here? Those two types of flame wars seem to be very different animals, given the generally lower levels of egregious idiocy on this forum.
    Post edited by Eryn on
  • AprecheApreche
    You can tell when people start to repeat themselves without actually addressing the points made by the other party. That is when intellectual discussion ends and flame begins.
  • AndrewAndrew
    You can tell when people start to repeat themselves without actually addressing the points made by the other party. That is when intellectual discussion ends and flame begins.
    I think the main problem is that people just don't comprehend information in a discussion and therefore choose to ignore it. I wonder if it's an issue of them simply not reading or if they just can't process the information.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    What's a flame way?
  • AndrewAndrew
    What's a flame way?
    You are such a fucking retard. LRN2BASiCInTERNETz
  • AprecheApreche
    What's a flame way?
    A typo.
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    I say it is down to personal preference.
    Nazi.
  • BronzdragonBronzdragon
    What's a flame way?
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  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    Did I make a typo in the thread title?

    I'm off to commit Sepukku.
  • VigaViga
    Douches and debaters. 10 extra points if you are both.
  • zombie a gogozombie a gogo
    Q. When does a discussion thread become a flame war?
    A. When childish emotion takes the place of intelligence and logic.
  • Kate MonsterKate Monster
    edited June 2008
    When I say it is!

    Abortion should not only be legal, but encouraged!
    PETA has the right idea!
    George W. Bush is the best President ever!
    Macs are the only computers worth buying!
    Video games not only cause violent behavior, but give you eye cancer!
    Don't eat eggs, they are bad for you!

    and so on......
    Post edited by Kate Monster on
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    When I say it is!

    Abortion should not only legal, but encouraged!
    PETA has the right idea!
    I like these two.

    One of my favorite SNL skits last season was a PETA-produced game show that pitted people (no guns) against endangered animals. So it was some redneck hunter (without a gun, mind you) up against a polar bear. Good times.
  • AndrewAndrew
    One of my favoriteSNLskits last season was a PETA-produced game show that pitted people (no guns) against endangered animals. So it was some redneck hunter (without a gun, mind you) up against a polar bear. Good times.
    PETA is one hair shy of being a terrorist organization. They are anti-science and hypocritical.
  • gomidoggomidog
    They are like Greenpeace in that regard.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    PETA is one hair shy of being a terrorist organization. They are anti-science and hypocritical.
    Proof?
  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    PETA is one hair shy of being a terrorist organization. They are anti-science and hypocritical.
    Proof?
    "Fight! Fight! Fight!"
  • AprecheApreche
    PETA is one hair shy of being a terrorist organization. They are anti-science and hypocritical.
    Proof?

    You can find the rest of it on your own.
  • gomidoggomidog
    Proof?
    I am probably one of the most animal-rights-happy posters on this forum and I think PETA is often very misguided. Not exactly proof, but...yeah.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    PETA is one hair shy of being a terrorist organization. They are anti-science and hypocritical.
    Proof?
    You can find the rest of it on your own.
    Work doesn't let me watch the Youtube videos. The problem I anticipate is that PETA might object to using animals in wacky experiments that don't need to be performed. That's not anti-science. That's just anti-wackiness. I remember at U.K. in the 80s they were still doing NASA type centrifuge experiments with animals. That didn't need to be done. NASA understood all there was to understand about the effect of g-forces on animal tissues. They just still had to justify their funding. I would be happy to see wacky, useless experiments using animals stopped.

    That doesn't mean I'm against all animal experiments. If they serve a real purpose, I'm happy to have them performed.

    Actually, the animals matter too. If someone wants to experiment on Rhesus Monkeys, that's outstanding. Those little bastards deserve to be experimental subjects.
  • AprecheApreche
    Hungry Joe, it is obvious you do not know the full depths of the craziness that is PETA. On paper PETA believes in total animal liberation, as in no pets. They also hypocritically euthanize many many animals. That's just the surface.
  • AndrewAndrew
    PETA has direct ties to the Animal Liberation Front as well as the Earth Liberation Front. PETA is also opposed to ALL animal testing, "even if it found the cure for AIDS." Oh, but the problem is that they kill animals themselves and leave them in dumpsters.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    Animal rights fundamentalists, now I've seen everything.
  • ZeehatZeehat
    When the funnzorszz!!one11I!! begin.
  • AndrewAndrew
    PETA is even on record for giving $70,000 to Rod Coronado after he burned down the Michigan State Research Lab.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    Well, okay then. I did not know that. That is a tad on the extreme side.

    Now I want to talk more about the Rhesus Monkeys. When I was at U.K., I lived for a semester at a hotel whose owner kept a bunch of them. They were nasty. I'd be in favor of any experiments they could dream up for those nasty little bastards.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    edited June 2008
    Some animals are just too tasty to be protected. Then again, test tube meat (especially creation of new kinds of meat) wouldn't be so bad.
    Post edited by Omnutia on
  • Kate MonsterKate Monster
    Wow.... tongue-in-cheek comments led to this....
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