Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Eradicating Flame Wars in Social Media

In a recent Facebook post, a graphic with photos of historical computer programming language authors was ridiculed and criticized for "leaving out" some languages and their authors.

A commentator named Sree Mahalakshmi employed a substantially different approach in his response.

He chose to expand upon and clarify the history, instead of engaging in a stupid flame war, as many of the earlier commenters had done.

This type of response in social media could give the platforms new life.

The original thread poster really generated a great new "movement" in many respects.

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