[Imc-sydney] What is Flame Bait?

[diet simon]

Hallo All,

Maybe I'm naive, or haven't slept enough last night, or whatever, but the 
whole IndyMedia movement is driven by anger, our collective anger at the 
pigs that are fucking up our world, so what's wrong with "an angry 
response"?

Sometimes someone posts something that just gets your goat so badly you need 
to have a go at them personally.

If someone wrote here that the Burmese junta were good blokes or that Bush 
was doing the right thing or that the Nazis were OK or that Howard and his 
gangsters were decent men and women I'd want to "flame-bait" the person 
writing that.

I wouldn't want their  kind of writing appearing here, but where do you draw 
the censoring line? I can't stand censorship, either.

Maybe we need some flaming in order to douse it.

Writing all this has just driven home to me what a dour, doom and bloom gig 
IndyMedia is. No laughs, no levity anywhere....pity.

Welcoming a sunny spring day in my  house in Noosa, Mortgage Slave Diet.

> Pyewacket Cat wrote:
>> # A controversial message that is almost guaranteed to attract flaming.
>> home.esn.net/support/glossarya.html
>>
>> # Flamebait or trollbait is a message posted to an Internet discussion 
>> group, such as a newsgroup or a mailing list, with the intent of 
>> provoking an angry response (a "flame"). Various motives or explanations 
>> can be sought for this puzzling behavior; the desire for attention and 
>> the desire for entertainment at others' expense are two leading motives.
>> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_bait
>>
> Payment by PR firms, Govt departments, etc to disrupt a forum may also
> occur, though it's rare that it's provably the case.
>
> Andrew
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