As world events demonstrate, ignoring those who are childishly screaming for attention doesn't always make them stop. The varieties of flaming experience Flames tend to proceed along predictable patterns. That is, the same flames are repeated over and over again in different forums and at different times. Below are some classic flames. It happens every day.
Someone misspells a word in a public message.
One or more people absolutely must publicly correct the error. Judging from the number of times this happens, there seem to be millions of high school English teacher wannabes in cyberspace. Ironically, spelling flames nearly always contain spelling errors. Spelling flames are bad Netiquette. If you feel absolutely compelled to correct someone's spelling or grammar, do so via private email.