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* ItAmusedMe: Enfant Provocateur's reason for stirring up trouble is... just because.
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* MasterOfDisguise: Impostor, a Warrior who can change his internet persona on a whim, and tends to fake about who he is.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Bong, who types very random nonsensical stuff, and is even said to be tethered in orbit high above the earth.
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* GrammarNazi: The Grammarian will not hesitate to even the slightest mistakes in spelling and grammar.
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* ThreadNecromancer: The Necromancer, of course. He brings long-dead threads back to life.
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* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: Artful Dodger's hat. When attacked, he uses a counterattack that changes the subject to a different topic.
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* PersonOfMassDestruction: Internet forum-style-- Godzilla has the ability to crush an entire forum when he strikes, and NothingIsTheSameAnymore after that.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: The aptly-named Ego regards forums as all about him, and will even go lengths to provoke conflict so that he becomes the subject at hand.
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* {{Fanboy}}: The aptly-named Fanboy is well, a fanboy with interests and knowledge in a single obsession. If said obsession is criticized, he immediately defends it with ferocious tenacity.
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* SirSwearsALot: Compost flings expletives and vulgarities to keep his opponent at bay. Is noted for being a rather weak warrior who quickly gains the attention of Nanny or Admin and is quickly banned from it.
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* FlameBait: The Grenade, as mentioned above, is a subject that causes massive InternetBackdraft arguments when dropped.
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* FlameBait: The Grenade, as mentioned above, Grenade is a subject that causes massive InternetBackdraft arguments when dropped.
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* FlameBait: The Grenade, as mentioned above, is a subject that causes massive InternetBackdraft arguments when dropped.
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* InternetCounterattack: The Swarm is this, even providing the page image. Any offending message in a Swarm nest will cause the whole swarm to attack in a ZergRush.
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* InternetCounterattack: The Swarm is this, even providing the page image. Any offending message in that reaches a Swarm nest will cause the whole swarm to attack the offender in a ZergRush.
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* InternetCounterattack: The Swarm is this, even providing the page image. Any offending message in a Swarm nest will cause the whole swarm to attack in a ZergRush.
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* ZergRush: The Swarm's method of attack. One offending message sets off the entire swarm which will bring down even the strongest warriors due to attrition.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Some warriors are characterized as usually being pleasant, but being very effective at online arguments once they're goaded. These would include the Big Cat, Coffee Klatch, Kung-Fu Master and Jekyl And Hyde.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Some warriors are characterized as usually being pleasant, but being very effective at online arguments once they're goaded. These would include the Big Cat, Coffee Klatch, Kung-Fu Master and Jekyl Jekyll And Hyde.
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* NiceGuy: The Eagle Scout is friendly, helpful, eager to keep the discussion meaningful and civil, and is not easily provoked by petty arguments. He's also described as JumpingOnAGrenade to [[HeroicSacrifice save the forum]].
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* NiceGuy: The Eagle Scout is friendly, helpful, eager to keep the discussion meaningful and civil, and is not easily provoked by petty arguments. He's also described as JumpingOnAGrenade to [[HeroicSacrifice save the forum]].
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* TheSpock: Android, who is emotionless and only notes illogic in other flame warriors' arguments.
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* TheSpock: Android, who is who's emotionless and only notes illogic in other flame warriors' arguments.
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* TerseTalker: Grunters are defined by how they respond to messages with only a single word or a short phrase.
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* JekyllAndHyde: The very name of a specific warrior who can oftentimes switch from being nice, helpful, and rule-abiding to a completely unhinged jer.
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* JekyllAndHyde: The very name of a specific warrior who can oftentimes switch from being nice, helpful, and rule-abiding to a completely unhinged jer.jerk.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Some warriors are characterized as usually being pleasant, but being very effective at online arguments once they're goaded. These would include the Big Cat, Coffee Klatch, Kung-Fu Master, JekyllAndHyde
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Some warriors are characterized as usually being pleasant, but being very effective at online arguments once they're goaded. These would include the Big Cat, Coffee Klatch, Kung-Fu Master, JekyllAndHydeMaster and Jekyl And Hyde.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Tons to represent various posters of particularly extreme political backgrounds. Troglodytes are ultra-conservative bigots, Weenies are ultra-sensitive liberals, Capitalistas are libertarians who won't stop harping on the merits of the free enterprise system, Pinkos are {{Straw Feminist}}s, and Idealogues define themselves entirely by their set ideals and won't accept a difference in opinion.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Tons to represent various posters of particularly extreme political backgrounds. Troglodytes are ultra-conservative bigots, Weenies are ultra-sensitive liberals, Capitalistas are libertarians who won't stop harping on the merits of the free enterprise system, Pinkos are {{Straw {{Dirty Communists}}/{{Straw Feminist}}s, and Idealogues define themselves entirely by their set ideals and won't accept a difference in opinion.
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* TheGenericGuy: Lamers don't display any real defining personality traits to their posts, seldom provide keen insight to whatever discussions they participate in, and aren't obnoxious enough to warrant banning.
* ManipulativeBastard: Whisper warriors avoid open conflict if they can, preferring to send private messages to friends or sympathetic posters in order to rally support (or at least look like they're rallying support) for their side of the argument.
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* TheWatcher: The Lurker seldom, if ever, posts, but he's always there, silently reading the discussion.
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* BerserkButton: The Grenade is one for an entire forum. It represents a subject that always, without fail, invokes a massive InternetCounterattack that makes a normally civil community devolve a series of angry arguments.
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* BerserkButton: The Grenade is one for an entire forum. It represents a subject that always, without fail, invokes a massive InternetCounterattack InternetBackdraft that makes a normally civil community devolve a series of angry arguments.arguments.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Some warriors are characterized as usually being pleasant, but being very effective at online arguments once they're goaded. These would include the Big Cat, Coffee Klatch, Kung-Fu Master, JekyllAndHyde
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Some warriors are characterized as usually being pleasant, but being very effective at online arguments once they're goaded. These would include the Big Cat, Coffee Klatch, Kung-Fu Master, JekyllAndHyde
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* JekyllAndHyde: The very name of a specific warrior who can oftentimes switch from being nice, helpful, and rule-abiding to a completely unhinged jer.
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* SatelliteCharacter: Me-Too is a warrior who only ever acts alongside a Big Dog because they're weak and insecure to act alone. It doesn't even have its own page on the roster.
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* TheFundamentalist: Deacon, an obnoxious religious zealot.
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* TheFundamentalist: Deacon, an obnoxious religious zealot.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Tons to represent various posters of particularly extreme political backgrounds. Troglodyte are ultra-conservative bigots, Weenies are ultra-sensitive liberals, Capitalistas are libertarians who won't stop harping on the merits of the free enterprise system, Pinkos are {{Straw Feminist}}s, and Idealogues define themselves entirely by their set ideals and won't accept a difference in opinion.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Tons to represent various posters of particularly extreme political backgrounds. Troglodyte Troglodytes are ultra-conservative bigots, Weenies are ultra-sensitive liberals, Capitalistas are libertarians who won't stop harping on the merits of the free enterprise system, Pinkos are {{Straw Feminist}}s, and Idealogues define themselves entirely by their set ideals and won't accept a difference in opinion.
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* HateSink: The Target is a poster who most everyone on the forum hates. Sometimes, they can be used as a pressure valve for the community to vent its pent-up rage on, so when it loses the old Target, it will very likely pick a new one.
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* NiceGuy: The Eagle Scout is friendly, helpful, eager to keep the discussion meaningful and civil, and is not easily provoked by petty arguments. He's also described as JumpingOnAGrenade to [[HeroicSacrifice save the forum]].
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* SingleIssueWank: The Issues warrior is a kind of poster who will always talk about a specific issue they have with...whatever, regardless of what relevance it has to the topic at hand.
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* SingleIssueWank: SingleIssueWonk: The Issues warrior is a kind of poster who will always talk about a specific issue they have with...whatever, regardless of what relevance it has to the topic at hand.
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* SingleIssueWank: The Issues warrior is a kind of poster who will always talk about a specific issue they have with...whatever, regardless of what relevance it has to the topic at hand.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Tons to represent various posters of particularly extreme political backgrounds. Troglodyte are ultra-conservative bigots, Weenies are ultra-sensitive liberals, Capitalistas are libertarians who won't stop harping on the merits of the free enterprise system, Pinkos and {{Straw Feminist}}s, and Idealogues define themselves entirely by their set ideals and won't accept a difference in opinion.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Tons to represent various posters of particularly extreme political backgrounds. Troglodyte are ultra-conservative bigots, Weenies are ultra-sensitive liberals, Capitalistas are libertarians who won't stop harping on the merits of the free enterprise system, Pinkos and are {{Straw Feminist}}s, and Idealogues define themselves entirely by their set ideals and won't accept a difference in opinion.
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* BerserkButton: The Grenade is one for an entire forum. It represents a subject that always, without fail, invokes a massive InternetCounterattack that makes a normally civil community devolve a series of angry arguments.
* EverythingIsRacist: Defines the Ethnix warrior, who uses his (supposedly) ethnic background to undermine his opponents and accuse them of being racist.
* {{Jerkass}}: Some warriors, like the Big Dog and the aptly-named Jerk, are defined by how assholish they are.
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* {{Troll}}: Troller is the most obvious one by its name, but the Evil Clown also qualifies in how he says things just to get on people's nerves.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Tons to represent various posters of particularly extreme political backgrounds. Troglodyte are ultra-conservative bigots, Weenies are ultra-sensitive liberals, Capitalistas are libertarians who won't stop harping on the merits of the free enterprise system, Pinkos and {{Straw Feminist}}s, and Idealogues define themselves entirely by their set ideals and won't accept a difference in opinion.
* {{Troll}}: Troller is the most obvious one by its name, but other warriors like the Evil Clown and Enfant Provocateur alsoqualifies qualify in how he says they say things just to get on people's nerves.
* {{Troll}}: Troller is the most obvious one by its name, but other warriors like the Evil Clown and Enfant Provocateur also
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* EmoTeen: Acne is the kind of poster who frequently whines about their life, and is more often than not described as "a middle class teenager with an allowance, unlimited access to a computer and WAY too much time on his hands."
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* NeverMessWithGranny: The Toxic Granny is an elder poster who's just as aggressive on the keyboard as the younger warriors. Taken to a literal extreme, as being beaten by her is humiliating, but winning an argument against her gains no glory.
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* {{Troll}}: Troller is the most obvious one by its name, but the Evil Clown also qualifies in how he says things just to get on people's nerves.
* TyphoidMary: A specific warrior that's unknowingly infected with viruses and Trojans, and who just as unknowingly spreads it around on the forums they visit.
* TyphoidMary: A specific warrior that's unknowingly infected with viruses and Trojans, and who just as unknowingly spreads it around on the forums they visit.
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A website that is devoted to describing the recurring characters one finds in regular {{flame war}}s on the internet, owned by artist Mike Reed. Many will find them very recognizable.
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A website that is devoted to describing the recurring characters one finds in regular {{flame war}}s on the internet, owned by artist Mike Reed. Many will find them very recognizable. The site can be found [[http://flamewarriorsguide.com/ here]].
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* HollywoodAtheist: Atheist is of the "must mock and belittle believes/religion with every opportunity" kind.
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* HollywoodAtheist: Atheist is of the "must mock and belittle believes/religion with believers/religion/theism at every opportunity" kind.
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* BasementDweller: Acne is implied to be one of these.
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* TheFundamentalist: Deacon, an obnoxious Bible-thumper who often battles with Atheist, naturally.
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* TheFundamentalist: Deacon, an obnoxious Bible-thumper who often battles with Atheist, naturally. religious zealot.
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!!This website provides examples of:
* BasementDweller:
* HollywoodAtheist: Atheist is of the "must mock and belittle believes/religion with every opportunity" kind.
* NoIndoorVoice: ALL CAPS appears to lack one, based on their habit of communicating with the caps lock constantly on.
* TheFundamentalist: Deacon, an obnoxious Bible-thumper who often battles with Atheist, naturally.
* TheSpock: Android, who is emotionless and only notes illogic in other flame warriors' arguments.
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!!This website provides examples of:
* BasementDweller:
* HollywoodAtheist: Atheist is of the "must mock and belittle believes/religion with every opportunity" kind.
* NoIndoorVoice: ALL CAPS appears to lack one, based on their habit of communicating with the caps lock constantly on.
* TheFundamentalist: Deacon, an obnoxious Bible-thumper who often battles with Atheist, naturally.
* TheSpock: Android, who is emotionless and only notes illogic in other flame warriors' arguments.
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