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i voted no - but i would say that people should be able to defend themselves - if someone starts talking smack to me i'm going to let them have a piece of my monkey mind

the problem i had with flaming noobs was it was automatic, repetitive, and, largely, unfunny... the typical was "hi, i'm johnny and i like horror" followed by 80 responses of "STFU Noob" and "Your mother sucks c**ks in hell" etc. what had poor little johnny done to deserve the abuse and why is an endless stream of STFU supposed to be witty.

so, in closing, insults that are appropriate, justified and, most importantly, FUNNY are cool in my book - mindless flaming of noobs is not