Many active participants of forums use the word "flame". It has a foreign origin, and some visitors of Internet forums sometimes do not even suspect about its true value.
The word "flame" comes from the English word flame and is literally translated as "a flame, fire or passion". That is the flame is actually fierce dispute for the sake of a dispute in Internet space. When many participants already forgot about what the dispute began with, passed to personal insults, claims because of religion, nationalities, a floor and professional skills, – all this bright signs of a flame at a forum.
Flame reasons
Introduction by certain participants of a forum of remarks who do not correspond to the created subject is the main reason for a flame. For example, in a subject for discussion of opportunities for opening and development of small business in a certain area, the abstruse individual with a request suddenly puts in a ward to help to buy it an aquarium. By itself this situation involves irritation and anger of other participants of a discussion which bring down all the rage on the unlucky aquarian. It is necessary to understand this situation, the person made it intentionally or just accidentally climbed not on that branch of a forum. The flame can be special and accidental.
Main types of a flame
On the signs the flame can be separated into two views – initiative and reactive. The initiative flame means itself emergence of an unbalanced active aggressor who offends all participants of a forum as separately, and all community. The reactive flame meets when any, even the most harmless remark not on a subject, causes inadequate reaction of other interlocutors.
How to save itself from a flame?
The most reliable protection against any fleymer and unbalanced boors at forums is their full ignoring. Answering a fleymer, you involve yourself in an aggressive discussion. Before writing him the angry answer full of all your brightest impressions, it is better to re-read once again written, to inhale several times deeply, and your rage will pass by itself.
What can the flame be useful?
Despite all the obvious shortcomings, a flame has also some positive lines. It allows to release aggression, sitting at the computer and not going outside, can give a new impulse of already decayed discussion, having filled it with new paints. In it a situation a lot of things depend on the moderator of a forum which should put participants of a discussion on the right track, thereby turning the enemy into the ally. To all other, owners of forums often provoke interlocutors a flame to raise attendance of the websites.