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>Why do people put down others? Both online and offline. What do they get out of it?
>There used to be a time when people could have a conversation on the internet, but now everybody mistakes flaming for trolling. Trolling back then used to be light hearted and sometimes funny. I'm not asking for a hugbox, just some basic human decency.
This is total zoomer revisionism. I remember being online during 9-11, everyone was fucking horrible to each other, especially leftists who blamed the attack on the United States and thought Republicans, were all racist scum who hated Arabs for not being white. Flame wars on message boards always got extremely heated right off the bat, and they always devolved into being personal and insulting each other. "Flame war" is a very old term that is from the late 90's probably and describes how mean people were to each other when there was an internet argument, it usually ended up with the two people insulting their mothers, saying they were the result of incest, whatever else. The only thing that got worse in that regard is doxing and trying to get people fired over internet posts didn't become a thing until after 2010 thanks to social media.