Do I have to be an elementalist mage to post a “flame” or start a “flamewar”?
No you don’t, and trust me, you don’t want to try. Nor do you want to be on the receiving end of one. A flame is a nasty, inflamatory message. It does very little except repeatedly insult another poster or a group of people, or the recipient if it is sent via e-mail. A flamewar is a flame in response to a flame in response to a flame, and so on, ad nauseum. Neither flaming nor getting involved in flamewars is conducive to a long net.life or a good net.reputation. Some topics are “hot buttons”, which can do very little but devolve into flamewars. Many have very little to do with *D&D except tangentally. Some examples are homosexuality, the place of women in society, religion, rape, and ethics & what constitutes “good” or “evil”. In general, if one of these topics comes up, don’t bother posting! Each of these has been discussed to death in the past, whether or not you were here to see it. (If you weren’t here for one of these discussions, but still want to read about it, please see the U
