For regulars at Ars Technica, the forums are as much a part of the site’s identity as the articles. And where there are forums, there are flame wars. The BattleFront is infamous for its contentious ...

Cross-posted from the front page: Flaming, trolling, ad hominem, logical fallacies, Godwin violations—it's all the stuff of too many online discussions. In Part 1 of this four-part series, logician ...