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Definitions of flame war:

When an online discussion degenerates into a series of personal attacks against the debaters, rather than discussion of their positions. A heated exchange.
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A heated, angry exchange of messages, usually in a public forum. Implies the complete absence of thoughtful, respectful discourse.
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The exchange of hostile messages between two or more people. Top
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A prolonged series of flames in a USENET newsgroup, which may have begun as a creative exchange or views but which quickly degenerates into personal attacks and crude name-calling.
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A hostile, and often derogatory, note that is posted on a discussion board or sent as an e-mail message. The person who receives the note has "been flamed", and if an angry exchange takes place, it is referred to as a "flame war".
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An argument or ongoing sequence of hostile communications between two or more people in a public forum on the Internet.
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This happens two or more people are communicating which then degenerates into a large amount of flame instead of communication.
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When flames get out of control and threaten to take over a Usenet group.
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Flaming is the performance "art" of posting messages that are deliberately hostile and insulting, usually in the social context of a discussion board (usually on the Internet). Such messages are called flames, and are often posted in response to flamebait. Flaming is one of a class of economic problems known as The Tragedy of the Commons, when a group holds a resource (in this case, communal attention), but each of the individual members has an incentive to overuse it.
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