What is a flame?
A flame on SMRF is a needless and/or baseless attack/criticism of another individual in a post to the list. SMRF is designed to support modelers and their efforts. To that end, respect of individuals is important. Others may have differing viewpoints regarding what constitutes quality in models, layouts, manufacturing practices, or perspective. In order to have a reasonable discussion when two people disagree, there needs to be respect for the people involved. In other words, assume that the person disagreeing with you (whether a subscriber or not) has the best of intentions. It could be they disagree because they are misinformed or because they have different opinions. You can inform people and change their positions sometimes. But in many cases, you will just have to agree to disagree. There is nothing in modeling that is so important that everyone has to believe the same thing. Repeated statements on the same issue do not convince anyone and can only lead to others’ becoming frustra
A flame is an open insult (usually excessive) of someone or something. • What is a “newbie”? A newbie is someone who is relatively new to a certain newsgroup/online list/service, etc. • What is a “lurker”? A lurker is someone who reads but, for the most part, doesn’t post to an online group. There are hundreds or thousands of lurkers in any given newsgroup. • What is ‘Netiquette’? This is proper etiquette used in cyberspace (Internet + etiquette = netiquette). You should get the hang of it if you stick around for a while; much of it is common sense – don’t post things that will be rude or uncalled for. This AMN FAQ covers a lot of netiquette. • Why is there so much porn here? A lot of people advertise their webpages, and sometimes they are ones of an adult nature. Most of the time they will e-mail it to you, if they get your address from a post you made. This is why many people use “spamblocks” such as disguising their e-mail address. An example would be: adding “nospam.” to an e-mail
