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Also known as: flamewar
A thread that collapses into sustained mutual insult, often running for hundreds of articles and crossposted into unrelated groups as participants recruit allies. Flame wars were a recurring drain on high-traffic groups; regulars responded by killfiling the participants or by asking that follow-ups be redirected elsewhere with a Followup-To header. Godwin's Law was coined as an observation about how such threads tended to end.
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