[Imc-sydney] What is Flame Bait?

[peter brookes]

I tend to agree with Diet - re indymedia being "Dour"-


I also recognise that the editors probably have a hard
time weeding out the garbage from those who post that
do want some inteligent level of discussion- flaming
or other wise.
I say bring it on and allow those who are genuinly
interested in debate look after themselves. Tell ya-
there's more interest in one flame bait than a hundred
non-emotional generic, toe-the- line response.

As for the assumption that there are flamers who are
paid to do so during work hours- HEY, half the fucking
working population of australia are using up their
work hours online, either blogging or posting onto
forums like this one.
       Loosen up a bit.
                                  Pete from
iochromalounge.


--- diet simon <diet_simon at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Please note: this list is archived and searchable
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> 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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