I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
"Bad-mouthing"... because I observed that 'flaming' as we knew it in the late 1990s and early 2000s doesn't exist anymore and what's replaced it isn't, in my opinion, worthy of the label?
Your observations right or wrong is just that. Your opinions/observations The golden era of flaming was like The Attitude Era in the WWE. That time will never be duplicated. Too many talented writers haunting a handful of small obscure forums causing havoc at huge online boards.
This incarnation of what flaming has turned into is an abomination and blasphemy. But hey we gotta work with what we got, right? The newer generation of shit talkers may not be what we are used to, but it is flaming to an extent. Sans the political discourse, and the LGBTQ community. While homos have always been easy marks online, this newer version of trolls use it like it's a teething bottle.
You have bad mouthed certain "flamers," and the whole flaming thing in general at one point, even with you vacating some boards over it.
That's only stating the obvious.
That's what we're doing here: interacting. Not just you and me in these particular exchanges; what we're all doing here every day. Interacting with people we've been doing that with in some cases for decades. It may have started in 'flame' groups and forums but it was hardly predicated or dependent on them.
It wasn't and isn't the 'flaming' that keeps me coming back.
It's the people. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
The answer to the question of Why can't you accept it really is that simple eludes me. And that's okay too; I don't actually *need* to know.
No, the flaming isn't what brings you back. I get it, it's the people. But most of those people are flaming or trolling. So by proxy you come out here for the people, but the people are flaming, something now you say shouldn't be coupled in with the older iterations.
I can accept anything anyone says. It's just when their answers change like a clock in a 24-hour period, I start to wonder what they are actually saying. On one hand you dislike this newer generation of flaming, and don't want it to be called that, yet you participate in what you say shouldn't be compared with 1990's-2000's level of flaming. Isn't that kinda restrictive and contradictory on your part.
You might be.
I have that useless fuckwit on Ignore 99.99% of the time.
Now and then I take him off just to see if he still belongs on it and usually before a whole day's gone he proves he isn't capable of enhancing my forum experience in any positive way so... *plonk*
Garraty, Garraty...you mean to tell me that admin annoys you so, that you need the little semen chaser on ignore? I see it as one of the downsides of having an open mind. I feel that even shlong suckers like admin can perhaps even teach me something if the planets were to align.
I'm not an opponent of 'flaming'.
I deny such a thing as I define it even exists anymore.
Those two things are not interchangeable.
I see.
So what have you been doing the last 6 or so years? You've been out here telling others to fuck off...most recently LotusToast. Are you just merely "interacting?" I'd hate to think that you and the rest of the forum come on here acting like you do in real life.
What you were doing is flaming. Something you say doesn't exist in this time period or/and should not be defined as such.
No, they are not interchangeable, because they can't be compared accordingly as it is two very different time periods all together.