http://www.metafilter.com/tags/flamer Posts tagged with 'flamer' at MetaFilter. Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:11:52 -0800 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:11:52 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/58792/Johnny%2DStorm%2DRevealed <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/health/psychology/20essa.html?ref=health">Flame wars as psychopathology.</a> What's behind those <a href="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/14pogue-email-2/">flaming hot e-mails</a> or UseNet <a href="http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/iguide/chap4.flames.html">flame wars</a> or <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/9587">MetaFilter comments?</a>. Perhaps, as <a href="http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/psycyber.html">John Suler</a> suggested, there are <a href="http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/disinhibit.html">a number of factors</a>, including dissociative anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, solipsistic introjection (altered self-boundaries), dissociative imagination, and minimzation of authority, as he discussed in his fascinating <a href="http://www.samblackman.org/Articles/Suler.pdf">2004 paper</a> (note: .pdf). Is there, as the NY Times piece asks, "a design flaw inherent in the interface between the brain’s social circuitry and the online world"? <small>Flaming previously covered by MeFi <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/39779/Flame-wars-gotcha-down-Try-this">here</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/9587">here</a>, <a href="http://metatalk.metafilter.com/9847/">here</a>, and of course, <a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/43255/Flame-temperature">here</a>.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.58792 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:11:52 -0800 asbestossuit flamer flamewars flaming scblackman