Going down in flames!

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It was your thread title that was misleading. Even auntblabby misunderstood it too when he saw it.

I've never had a thread go down in flames because another WP member was so eaten up with regret at NOT thinking up MY thread title first.

This is such fun...........

Blindspot149 - I don't believe that your title is exactly "misleading" but it is rather unclear and ambiguous.

In my opinion, the two most common usages of "flames" are:

1. Literally as in burning fire
2. Being harassed and insulted on the internet

If you had said anything about "threads" going down in flames I would assume the latter. Without any mention of internet it is semi-reasonable to take it literally as in meaning 1.

However, after reading the original post I now find that you meant it as a third meaning entirely. What you meant seems to be a kind of bastardized usage of:
3. "Going down in flames" - being completely destroyed, generally in a sudden and spectacular manner

In this case "going down in flames" is equated to a thread that was an utter failure. Which is not exactly inaccurate, but is not the first thing that comes to mind imo.

Does that help to clarify at all?

Clarice...

Agent Starling.....

It's tough when that happens

maybe it would have been better if it was called "threads fraying into the dusty nothingness of the memory hole" or
"threads evaporating into page 2 irrelevance" or something like that. just some brain f*rts on my parts

That'll be $2, please.

This has been a rather unusual thread.

Intended as a meeting place for those whose threads had failed to arouse sufficient interest to last more than a night (or a few hours), it was the target of a personal attack (ironically, another example of a thread going down in flames )

There seems to be plenty of angry or simply unpleasant exchanges on some of the forums, from time to time.

These are generally discussed IN the 'flaming threads'

That's one of the reasons I started the 'Got anything positive to say' thread

There didnt seem to be many places for people to say something deliberately nice.

I thought the 'going down in flames' thread would be a natural meeting place for those whose threads had not found interest with WP members.

I treat my threads that do 'go down in flames' as a learning experience and also mildly amusing in that I didn't 'get their attention'.

It is actually pure democracy in action and I love it

Some whose threads have gone down in flames may actually have been upset at receiving no (reply) acknowledgement after a very considered thread opening post.

All of the above remains in the spirit of this thread.

It will be interesting to see how much further this thread will stretch from its original intended purpose.............as set out in the first post of this thread.

This thread was started just a few hours before the other thread of a similar name, seen just below this one in the forum list (as I type), was started.

Anyone who bothered to read the first post on this thread would probably have understood that this was about threads that draw little or no interest and quickly fall into oblivion.

Flaming is quite a popular term on WP forums for unpleasant reponses.

It was somewhat ironic that this thread was prevented from 'going down in flames', (for a few days anyway), due to 'flaming'.

Enjoy both threads as they are reunited again