At 23.02 -0800 02-01-09, robert m. tynes scrobe:
Has anyone out there participated in a flame war?(The more recent, the better.) If so, I'd been interested in hearing about it.
Thanks,
Robert Tynes
What qualifies as a flame war in your book? I mean, I seem to get into conflicts by email pretty regularly (a lot more often than IRL) but although this shows me how easily people (me and others) are emotionally upset by email interactions the use of strong abusive language that I connect with a "flame war" is very rare, even totally absent (depending on where you draw the line). Like, since Christmas I have already A) had two long messages that gave me a headache and set my cheeks afire: the offspring of my attempt to mediate in a listserve conflict, which was then taken "backstage" in a cc-triad wher I was actually trying to start up a cooperation with one of the main participants in the list event; B) managed to insult an old net friend in an entirely different context, by... well I'm biassed of course - by putting one of his favorite power strategies in words indicating he's over-using it. The dangers of turning the tools of analysis upon the conversation between the analysts... shall we dance? Eva