In the modern Internet space, new terms are constantly emerging, quickly becoming quite familiar to it. But sometimes it is quite difficult to figure out what this or that word means. One of these words is, for example, "flood".
The word "flood", like many Internet terms, comes from the English language. The English word flood means "flood" and its meaning on the Internet is somewhat similar to the original, although it is used in a metaphorical, figurative sense. Flood is meaningless, empty, unrelated messages from users. Accordingly, "flood" means talking off-topic. There are many resources on the Internet devoted to very specific topics and discussions. If users come to such a site, in a forum or group topic, who start a conversation about another event, their messages are called a flood. For example, it is impossible to start the topic of family relations in a group on the sale of apartments, and in the topic of exam questions you cannot start a discussion of summer holidays - this will be considered a deviation from the topic of conversation, the user will be asked to stop such attempts and return to the original topic.
Flood types
You can flood both from ignorance of the specifics of the discussion, and deliberately. To avoid unknowingly flooding, you need to carefully study the new site, forum or social media group in which you find yourself. Read the rules of the users so as not to incur the dissatisfaction of others and not to interfere with anyone. Intentional flooding can be associated with various reasons: a desire to violate the rules, an act to spite other users, bullying them, cheating the number of messages, or even a hacker attack. Some users flood one request or one message many times, thus blocking the requests of other users and clogging up the forum or group space. The rules of some games in the online space prohibit players from sending several messages at once on their behalf, calling this also a flood.
Punishment for flooding
As a punishment for flooding, moderators or site administrators use a warning and even a user's ban - temporary or permanent. Usually, big problems with flooders - people spreading flooding - arise where moderators or resource administrators do not follow their discussion threads. With this control, users try to adhere to generally accepted rules and regulations. If a person mistakenly writes a message on the wrong topic, or if there is a more appropriate topic for such a message, moderators usually immediately direct the user on the right track. In other cases, flooding is more like spam, so such messages are quickly deleted.
The negative side of flooding is manifested primarily in the fact that it prevents users from communicating on the chosen topic of conversation, confuses them and even causes uncontrollable disputes. However, flooding is not always that bad. Often this word also refers to simple communication of users on all topics in a row. True, such communication should be carried out in a separate topic, which on thematic resources usually bears a quite suitable name for it "Flood", and in it no one will control what topics you communicate with other users.
