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| Fiore, et al. (2002) reported that Usenet newsgroups regularly receive noisy and voluminous messages that are mostly of limited value. Despite the merit of collaboration through computer networks, poor quality messages and flood newsgroups content have prove too difficult to be worthwhile. In an earlier research work, (Sack, 2000) highlighted that news browsers would be design to reduce the noise and increasing volume of articles traffic in online communities. So that users will be allowed to sort and search for dates of author’s contribution to messages and threading process in the community of users about a specific topic. | Fiore, et al. (2002) reported that Usenet newsgroups regularly receive noisy and voluminous messages that are mostly of limited value. Despite the merit of collaboration through computer networks, poor quality messages and flood newsgroups content have prove too difficult to be worthwhile. In an earlier research work, (Sack, 2000) highlighted that news browsers would be design to reduce the noise and increasing volume of articles traffic in online communities. So that users will be allowed to sort and search for dates of author’s contribution to messages and threading process in the community of users about a specific topic. | ||
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| + | A flame war is a tendency for a user to go off-topic and attack personality rather than their opinion. Likely candidates for flame wars are usually religion and socio-political topics, or topics that discuss pre-existing rivalries outside the forum. | ||
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