Lies, Damn Lies

Flaming

Theres a certain art to flaming. For those who don't know what it is, it is, essentially, insulting someone else, usually on a mesage board or forum, but someties in a chat room. Doing this will usually get you banned or at least warned in that particular forum.

However, you CAN get away with it. The best way to do this is to own the message board or chat room in question. Even then, of course, you do not want to drive others away- so you must choose your target carefully. The person to be flamed, must, ideally, be unable to type, as no-one who truly dwells on the internet actually likes internet speak. Next, they must also express opinions at about the level of a 5 year old. Luckily, these people tend to be in abundence over the entire internet.

Then you can flame. The truly inventive will generally use photoshop for true power, doing such genuinely inventive things such as shopping the flamee's head to a donkey, and making it say "pwned!". This will cause great amusement for all, and your internet respect will increase, possibly by even three points.

Whats great about this, is of course that the more respect you gain, the more you can get away with, until you become so respected that you can flame everyone on the board, and all they do is chuckle. And once you do that, why, you will become a GOD!

posted by Mr K @ 2:58 pm