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jxramos
on Jan 19, 2021
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China wants to build an open source ecosystem to r...
flamebait, that is a great word mashup that conveys a lot. Clickbait for starting a comment flamewar, never saw that one before. Gonna keep an eye out for these things with this lens.
im3w1l
on Jan 19, 2021
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I'm pretty sure the word flamebait predates clickbait.
Symbiote
on Jan 20, 2021
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Here's an early use of the word "flamebait" in rec.autos.tech (Usenet) in 1995:
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.autos.tech/c/1WGLn35Et70/m/b...
im3w1l
on Jan 20, 2021
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Google books finds earlier results: It's defined in the 1994 books
Information Superhighway illustrated
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Net Talk
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