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This is a flamebait comment. Not one comment on this article is supportive.
by Symbiote 6y ago
This is a flamebait comment. Not one comment on this article is supportive.
- jxramos 6y agoflamebait, that is a great word mashup that conveys a lot. Clickbait for starting a comment flamewar, never saw that one before. Gonna keep an eye out for these things with this lens.
- im3w1l 6y agoI'm pretty sure the word flamebait predates clickbait.
- Symbiote 6y agoHere's an early use of the word "flamebait" in rec.autos.tech (Usenet) in 1995: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.autos.tech/c/1WGLn35Et70/m/bboCY9TT5RoJ?pli=1 https://groups.google.com/g/rec.autos.tech/c/1WGLn35Et70/m/b...
- im3w1l 6y agoGoogle books finds earlier results: It's defined in the 1994 books Information Superhighway illustrated and Net Talk.
- 430scuderia 6y agoat the time I wrote it I've read a few comments that was fairly supportive but they've been deleted since. Thank you for policing the comments I think its great that you are making the best use of your time. wouldn't be the first time somebody tried to gate keep criticisms of CCP on here and won't be the last.