Question of the Day #602

Internet humorist and podcaster Asterios Kokkinos had no idea he’d wind up in the New York State Supreme Court embroiled in one of the pettiest cases to pass through the halls of justice when he entered into a mutually destructive flame war with George “Maddox” Ouzounian years ago.

From the headline of this article at Vice.

上記の文で、flame warの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "flame war" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

《イ》ネットワーク上で議論するときに過熱し過ぎてけんか状態になること

なお、日本語と英語の違いがあるので一概に言えませんが、日本語のネット上の「炎上する」に一番近い言い回しです。

Answer

According to The Free Dictionary:

An online discussion on a newsgroup, forum, or thread of blog comments in which debate about a subject degenerates into an exchange of personal insults.

Examples

• I can't come to work today because i'm having a flame war on www.flamewarforum.com.
• A wordn00b/word had started an innocent thread about graphical differences between Half-Life 2 and Doom3, but when Brassmonkey came in, the discussion turned into a flamewar, until Abom|nation had to close it down.
• "It started out as a discussion poll but quickly turned into a fu**ing flamewar."
• The result of this exchange led to an extended internet flame war.
• Flame wars often draw in many users (including those trying to defuse the flame war) and can overshadow regular forum discussion if left unchecked.

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