Re: Alabama Country Style Ribs.

KW wrote:
"Nonny" <somebody@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:SZN2m.9945$Bj5.2553@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Long ago, I came across some newsgroup where folk would discuss and actually compete for trolls and insults in other newsgroups. I wonder if this jerk is one of them. As I recall, the people would enter a newsgroup with a legitimate comment or question and continue with it for several replies, seeing how many they could get. Gradually, they'd toss in a correction to one of the most respected members and add a slight insult. That'd draw a reply and they'd just keep upping the ante, competing to see how many others could drawn into the fray. Eventually, they'd report to their own newsgroup what they'd done and the members would visit the newsgroup that had been disrupted into a fray.

I lost track of the name of the newsgroup, but wonder if this jerk is a participant. FWIW, I've seen several other similar type of escalating flame wars recently in some other newsgroups I follow that seem to be of this same pattern.
--
Nonny

. . . on a darned diet
and ready to chew off
my own elbows.



Used to see that kind of scorekeeping activity on alt.flame & alt.flame-wars way back in the day....

KW


KW - But you'd actually have to have read the postings, I have not, why bother?

Bob
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