Newsgroup vs Flamebait - What's the difference?
newsgroup | flamebait |
A repository on a computer network where people can post messages, usually about a single subject.
* 2003 , Sven Junghagen, Henrik C. J. Linderoth, Intelligent Management in the Knowledge Economy
(Internet slang) Content in an online forum, such as a newsgroup, with the intent of provoking anger, resulting in flames and sometimes flamewars.
As nouns the difference between newsgroup and flamebait
is that newsgroup is a repository on a computer network where people can post messages, usually about a single subject while flamebait is content in an online forum, such as a newsgroup, with the intent of provoking anger, resulting in flames and sometimes flamewars.newsgroup
English
(wikipedia newsgroup)Noun
(en noun)- Some of the users are 'old timers'; they have been around in the newsgroup for several years
