from dictionary.com:

An insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger, as on a computer network....To insult or criticize provokingly

To rant, to speak or write incessantly and/or rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude or with hostility towards a particular person or group of people. "Flame" is used as a verb ("Don't flame me for this, but...")

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