What is a flood?

Every modern person uses the Internetand has the opportunity to communicate with him through social networks, chat rooms, forums. Thus, you can learn a lot of useful and necessary information. But, unfortunately, on the Internet, not all information is useful or carries some kind of novelty and, as a rule, there is a lot of superfluous. It's about flooding. So, what is a flood? Let's consider.

The concept of flooding

Flood refers to redundant information that is notconveys in its content no novelty and usefulness. In fact, this is empty talk, superfluous words that clog the Internet. Internet forums have their own criteria for determining the flood. Firstly, it is information that does not correspond to the topic of the forum. That is, people write that they want and in no way reveal the essence of the matter at the forum. Secondly, a flood is called several messages coming in a row on the forum. By the way, there are tips for eliminating this. If you leave one message, and you need to add some more information, then it's better to edit the message already left. Many forums have editing functions. Third, the flood on the forums consider large by volume borrowed quotations. To flood also carry a different number of unnecessary icons, standard messages (something like "agree", "true"). Such messages simply take time and take up unnecessary space in the memory. These are the main criteria that explain what a flood is.

All the people who distribute such messages are called flooders. There are also smile-flood, wipe and nick-flood.

Nick-flood is called flood propagation by oneman, but under different logins. Vip called the creation of a large number of forums on empty topics. And a smile-flood is called sending an excessive number of emoticons.