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Originally posted by Weyzza
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Originally posted by Nagamasa
In this case, flaming is like peer pressure. Someone with a reasonable post count starts, and everyone does too to avoid negs
People "flame" to avoid negative reputations?
Wow, that's some perspective 
Late night thinking sorry for the misunderstanding
People follow a leader, which shows power somehow (which includes flaming). Others are then peer pressures indirectly and follow suit, although it might be just coincidentally that all the members feel the same way.
And another analogy is a bully. Teachers tell you not to bully (like how this thread is telling you not to flame), but people still do, and it exists because there is an audience, which gives the will to flame. Some of the audience dont have the power to stand up (and post little comments here like me), or just leave it as is. But sometimes its for a good cause, which is totally fine, but I've only seen it a few times here. There is, once again, no easy way out of this.
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