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There's many who start them, or rather feed them. Some people seem to enjoy to throw gasoline into some really small sparkles to create these massive flame wars.
As an example it wasn't really the_logos who started a flame war in his thread "Welcome, Medievia". He did post a thread with the possibility to become one though. It was the users of this board who decided to let it actually happen. Had the thread been locked after the first page of flames it would probably have cooled down. I believe Vryce himself stated a few years ago that these flame wars brought a lot of new players to Medievia. So flaming in this case doesn't only seem bad but also makes Medievia stronger.
The moderators should really lock "Welcome, Medievia" now as it is off topic. The posts in there aren't at all related to "Welcome" anylonger - neither rude nor nice welcomes. Still they let that flame war continue to both advertise the MUD on the frontpage and upset people. We all know Medievia won't shutdown or put the credits online again. Flaming them doesn't do anyone good. That has been done for many years now anyway.
These flame wars aren't productive in any way for the MUD community nor this board. All they do is to make people want to leave it. Like Molly O'Hara.
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