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- |Asking Questions Without Getting Flamed|
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- Author: R a v e N
- Author's contact information
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- Email: barakirs@netvision.net.il
- ICQ: 5917057
- Website: http://blacksun.box.sk
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- Please direct all questions and suggestions to the message board at
- blacksun.box.sk (this is the only message board I know that is completely
- flame-free. Honest. We have strict anti-flaming rules. You won't get flamed no
- matter how stupid you are, I promise. :-) ).
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- Introduction
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- What are flames?
-
- Flames are violent and aggressive responses to Email messages, newsgroup
- messages, IRC messages or any other form of communication over the
- Internet or any other computer network. Flames usually consist of bad words
- (e.g. Shut the fuck up, R a v e N!), swearing (e.g. R a v e N, you are a
- complete asshole!), cursing (e.g. Go to hell, fucker!!), censorship-like
- marks (e.g. You can take your tutorials and shove them up your !#$^*&!! Why
- wouldn't you go and suck some @$(&!@$)^*!!!), threats of physical violence
- (e.g. You are about to enter a world of pain, you son of a bitch!! I'm gonna
- kick your head until it falls off and starts bouncing and rolling down the
- stairs!!) and capital letters (E.G. FUCK OFF, YOU STUPID BITCH!! GO GET A
- HUMAN FACE OR SOMETHING INSTEAD OF THE HIDEOUS-LOOKING ONE YOU HAVE!!).
-
- WHAT ARE F... Sorry, forgot to turn off the caps lock button.
- What are flame wars?
-
- Flame wars occur when two or more different parties engage in a violent
- argument that, in a certain stage, turns into what is called a "flame war". A
- flame war would continue until one of the parties would withdraw and admit
- that they were wrong, if the flame war is killed by the moderator of the
- discussion mailing list, message board, IRC channel etc' or if one of the
- parties gets tired and stops responding to the other party's flames.
-
- When and why can/would I get flamed?
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- You can and probably will get flamed when you ask a number of questions or
- post a number of comments. I've sorted these into several groups and given
- examples for each group.
-
- * * * * * * * * * *
-
- 1) Begging.
-
- Please OP me!! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!! P-L-E-A-S-E!! I'll do ANYTHING!!
-
- Can anyone please send me this file/URL/whatever? Please? PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE?
- Please please pretty please?
-
- 2) Asking people to do things for you.
-
- Please hack this server/PC/website for me.
-
- Please help me hack a friend's PC.
-
- Please help me find this and that (unless you say that you've been searching
- this and that for a lot of time and give a short list of some of the places
- you've tried, in which case you probably won't get flamed, although most
- chances are that noone would help you, unless it's a special help board like
- mine, in which case the moderators would probably help you).
-
- 3) General lameness.
-
- I want to impress my friends and look elite. How do I hack?
-
- Remote administration trojans are elite! Now how do I use Netbus?
-
- 4) Extreme lack of knowledge.
-
- What is an ISP?
-
- Do I have a sound card? How can I tell?
-
- My printer stopped working. It says: "out of ink". Why is it "out" of ink?
- Can't it just say it ran out of ink? And why did it ran out of ink anyway? I
- mean, it's a completely new cartridge! I only replaced it about 8 months ago!
-
- 5) Over-use of capital letters and exclamation marks.
-
- HELLO EVERYONE!!!!!!
-
- HEY, LISTEN UP GUYS!!!!!!!!! I DID THIS AND THAT AND I'M SOOOOOOOOOOO ELITE
- AND STUPID 'CAUSE I USE CAPITAL LETTERS AND TONS OF EXCLAMATION MARKS LIKE
- SOME SORT OF A FREAK OF NATURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! MOO,
- MOO, BAAAA, SQUEAK, MEAU, WOOF WOOF AND OTHER SUCH ANIMAL SOUNDS!
-
- 6) Saying something that is against common belief or something that is of plain
- stupidity.
-
- Hey, people, guess what? I think Windows is a stable operating system and that
- it kick's Unix's ass and I'm here to say it out loud like a total jerk!! I'm
- an idiot, hear me roar!!
-
- What is Linux? It's an ISP just like AOL, right?
-
- 7) Starting a flame war.
-
- * This part has been censored for the sake of your mental health *
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- 8) Asking inspecific questions.
-
- Hey, how do I hack an FTP server?
-
- Please teach me EVERYTHING about TCP/IP - it's ins and outs, how it works, the
- history of TCP/IP and it's evolution over the years, detailed analysis of
- every protocol in the TCP/IP suite etc' etc'.
-
- 9) Praising yourself.
-
- Hey, look at me!! I've just hacked my friend's PC and I'm sooooooo eleeeeeeet!!
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- You guys are lamers! You know nothing!! I'm ten times better than you all!!
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- 10) Not reading the topic message in IRC channel or the readme files, FAQs and
- help files in message boards and discussion mailing lists, thus asking silly
- questions and acting like a total jerk.
-
- Hey, who are the moderators?
-
- How do I use this bot? How do I use this feature?
-
- * * * * * * * * * *
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- How to avoid getting flamed
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- a) DO NOT make any of the mistakes and flame-starting actions listed above.
- b) Think twice before doing anything.
- c) Make sure you knwo what you're talking about.
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- What to do after you've been flamed
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- In most cases, it's better to leave the flamer alone and quiet-down the issue.
- In some cases, you might have to reply, in which case you must find a way out.
- While you do so, try not to flame anyone back and make sure you don't give too
- many reasons for why you did this and that or said this and that, and only
- give REEEEAL GOOD reasons.
-
- Flaming-related concepts
- ------------------------
- * /dev/null - if you don't know what this is, you probably never studied Unix
- very thoroughly. Everything sent to /dev/null disappears from existence. This
- feature is very useful in many situations. For example: if you want to run and
- kill all the output and direct possible errors to /usr/share/logs/log.txt, you
- can type this:
- command > /dev/null 2>/usr/share/logs/log.txt
-
- command > /dev/null or command > 1>/dev/null will direct all output (stdout -
- Standard Output) to /dev/null. command 0>/dev/null will direct all input
- (stdin - Standard Input) to the command to /dev/null. command 2/dev/null will
- direct all errors (stderr - Standard Errors) to /dev/null.
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- When someone tells you to direct your flames to /dev/null, he means that you'd
- better shut up.
-
- * STFU - Shut The Fuck Up.
-
- * FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions. A file that contains... you've guessed it!
- Frequently Asked Questions.
-
- * RTFF - Read The Fucking FAQ / Read The Fine FAQ.
-
- * EOF - End Of File (not so flaming-related. Skip two lines ahead to see why I
- added this entry).
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- - E.O.F -