Fleming (from the English: tons Fleming, flash) are more ruppiger or polarizing mixers a comment and/or an offense in the Usenet, in a E-Mail message, Chatsitzung or a Forumthread. In the Usenet, where the term has its origin it was not excluded, as with the term of the Polemik that Fleming has also a special purchase. But Fleming is used in the meantime gladly for aggressive contributions without special purchase.

Therefore is a controversy was discussion, with which the participants become unobjective and possibly insulting. Was develops usually from a material discussion, which slips then in It participates important that the "“arguments"” are blow upon blow supplied, so that that was alive held.

Fleming Wars are a part of the net culture, on mailing lists or News groups belong them to the recurring phenomena. They are promoted in particular by the anonymity of communication.

For those, which argue gladly, its own newsgroup with the name was created a news:de.alt.flame. One can read these also with Google ().

Flaming is in most forums a Unsitte and by the moderators with a caution is usually punished. Flaming can itself in certain forums, which are only weakly moderated every now and then fast to spread and the atmosphere destroy, which makes a Web forum attractive. It lies completely in the sense of the forum community to prevent Flaming.

Also Flaming on Gameservern is operated. In this case usually wild insults are directed toward other fellow players, in addition, Newbies operate gladly Flaming, if they were killed by experienced fellow players. Usually insulting it these then as hackers or Cheater.

See also

• Netiquette
• Troll (Internet)
• Jargon file

Literature

• Alonzo, Mei; Aiken, Milam (2002): Flaming in electronics communication. In: Decision support of system 1038 (2002) 1-9
• Talmadge, Joe: The flamer's bible. (http://www.holysmoke.org/wb/wb0115.htm)

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