Flame-a-Thon Site Launched
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Flame-a-Thon Site Launched
Because of the recent GNOME vs. KDE flame wars happening on Slashdot, Usenet, and various
mailing lists, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda has launched a companion site to
Slashdot called flame-a-thon.org.
"I'm really getting sick of the mindless drivel being spouted everytime
KDE or GNOME is mentioned," CmdrTaco explains, "That's why I've programmed
Flame-a-Thon. It's a forum designed solely for flame wars. Now when
somebody tries to start a flame war on Slashdot or another forum, someone
can simply post 'Take your crap to flame-a-thon.org' and be done with it."
Flame-a-thon.org is run off a different server from Slashdot. It's
hosted on a Alpha box running Debian Linux and Apache connected to the Net
with three T3 lines. "Flame-a-thon has better connectivity than
Slashdot," CmdrTaco chuckles, "But it needs it. Only a powerful Linux
box can handle the load from flame wars where 500 message might
be posted in under 10 minutes. What the Net needs now is
a Microsoft-Bash-a-Thon website."
One Slashdot reader wasn't too enthusiastic about flame-a-thon. He
commented on Slashdot, "This is ludicrous. Flame-a-thon is a joke. Maybe
it should be featured on the Humorix site." Within minutes a flame war
erupted in the Slashdot comments area. "This is very ironic," one
anonymous poster observed.