The flounce post could contain insults directed at fellow members of the forum or at its administrators, and the users' grievances with them. They can range from the calm and reasoned to the emotional and hysterical, garnering comment and concern respectively. After flouncing, the user, rather than staying away, is usually back within a few days to a few weeks, often expecting that the mood regarding them will be exactly the same as it was when they left - which of course it never is.
In some cases, the flouncer spams the forum or - if in a position to do so - closes it entirely or disables a certain feature of it. The word flounce is intended to evoke the image of a child having a tantrum and flapping its arms about while screaming for attention.
Classic TT flounce artists:
- langlang - "TT is a joke, arbitrary and subjective, I bet it doesn't exist a year from now" - 15.Jul.2008
- odel2008 - "BadDoggie and I couldn't get along" - 6.Apr.2008
- DDBug - "DDBug is leaving the building, and we all know why" - 19.Mar.2008
- Jeremy - "I am not flouncing off in a vain huff or anything" - 12.Jul.2007
- Jooli - "immature, insular people who've spent too long in dark, clammy Irish pubs" - 28.Jun.2007
- warsteiner - "TT has remarks of an unnecesarrily condescending nature" - 9.May.2007
- Thistle - "It makes me sick with rage to read your comments" - 29.Jan.2007
- Grinner - "its not goodbye cruel world... but hello new life" - 9.Nov.2006
- roots - "throw a stone at my coffin... and make sure you strike it hard" - 16.Jan.2006
- ami58 - "TT is a bunch of self-absorbed, whining, pseudo-intellectual jackasses" - 9.Dec.2005
- fototaker - "caLLed me siLLy for haVing ranDom capitals in the words i tYpe" - 27.Oct.2004
See the TT chat forum for some flounce parodies - note that this link only works for logged-in forum members.
See also the discussion about flouncing and how to define it.
External links
- Meatball Wiki: GoodBye - discusses various types of member departure from an online community
- Flounce - Encyclopedia Dramatica - includes examples of LiveJournal flounces