Today, the Internet is full of strange and sometimes incomprehensible phrases and expressions: spam, flood, offtopic and much more. Getting confused in this chaos is very simple, if you do not have an idea of the most common concepts. The topic of this article is the flood, what it is, what it happens and what is connected with it. After all, probably everyone heard this word, but not everyone can explain what it means.
Flood - what is it?
Firstly, the meaning of this word on the Web is negative. Translated from English, flood is "flood", "flood" or "stream of something." Of course, the Internet flood has nothing to do with natural disasters. And figuratively, this is really a stream of words, unnecessary information that is specially brought down on users in places where they communicate.
Where can I meet the flood
Where it can interfere with normal Internet communication: in chat rooms, on forums, on social networks, etc. At every popular forum you can meet a flooder - a person who specifically floods and prevents other people from calmly discussing a hot topic.
What does flood look like? What is it?
These are, as a rule, absolutely meaningless messages that a flooder publishes in a common topic after a short period of time. In this way, it disrupts the normal functioning of places specially created for communication.
A flood can contain huge texts or very short messages. It can be a variety of sets of numbers, letters, words or sentences. In large messages, this nonsense is repeated several times in a row and occupies almost the entire page. Various images of vague content may also be a flood. But the main thing is that it does not make any sense. This behavior is usually punished by ban (blocking access to a forum or a specific topic). There is also a telephone flood. This is a kind of technical attack. A large number of requests are sent to the mobile device, as a result of which the phone loses connection with the satellite.
What is the point? Why flood?
Firstly, in order to spoil, harm, annoy and prevent people from communicating quietly on the Web.
Secondly, flood is a kind of helper for hackers. During DoS attacks, this automatically generated traffic clogs the necessary Internet channels, which loads them and reduces the level of protection.
Thirdly, it makes no sense. Just nonsense, lies and abracadabra.
Who is a flooder?
So, now that you know almost everything about the flood (what it is and how it happens), it remains to figure out who is involved in the flood. Well, why is this done, understandably! In order to get users crazy, interfere with their quiet communication. Who needs this? People who are offended by everyone and everything, with an unbalanced psyche and a sick pride. Most likely, through the flood, they assert themselves, they feel their importance.
As a rule, these are losers that nobody needs, who have a huge carriage and a small cart of complexes and who are afraid and despised of everyone and everyone. Such people are not able to pull themselves together and make a difference, so they take revenge on the rest, blaming them for their failures. And flood is one of the ways of such a peculiar revenge.