Internet terms amaze inexperienced users with their variety. Often they turn out to be borrowed from English, the most popular language on the Internet. But over time, they take root in the Russian language, becoming familiar concepts.
Instructions
Step 1
The word "holivar" comes from two words of the English language - holy war, which are translated as "holy war" and denote a type of dispute that proceeds violently and for a long time between several opponents who do not want to admit the rightness of the other side. They have completely opposite opinions, feel like irreconcilable opponents, believing that only their point of view is correct and worthy of existence.
Step 2
The goal of the holivar is mainly not to convince the enemy of his own rightness, but to show him and those around him how the opposite opinion is wrong. The debaters do not even try to understand the point of view of the other person, but insults and attempts to prove to everyone that only an uneducated person can think so are used. Anyone who participates in holivar usually considers himself to be much smarter and more successful than others, which gives him the right to disrespect other people who do not support him.
Step 3
Holivars are written disputes and occur on forums, in comments to news on websites and news portals, in social networking groups. But there are holivars that take place not only in a virtual environment, although initially this is still a term that came from the Internet. Today, many public disputes in real space are called holivars.
Step 4
Of course, such an attitude towards opponents in ordinary tolerant and friendly communication is unacceptable. In addition, holivar is a completely useless dispute, which will neither lead to clarification of the correct position on the issue, nor to a change in the opinion of one of the opponents and subsequent reconciliation, nor to a quick fading of the dispute. Starting with two implacable debaters, holivar can grow to enormous sizes, attracting more and more users. They are divided into two or more camps, they begin to prove their point of view already together, and this form of communication threatens to result in a huge scandal, up to the split of this user community and the massive withdrawal of some of them from the resource.
Step 5
Therefore, group administrators, site owners and forum moderators should closely monitor all discussions on the resource and strictly suppress any attempts to start a pointless dispute. Sometimes it gives some users pleasure to incite others to holivar and follow its development. Such attempts should be suppressed, and such users should be warned or expelled from the community.
Step 6
Examples of topics for holivars can be both completely banal and quite serious and problematic. Users are very fond of starting holivars on the topic of political events, wars, confrontation between two nations or religions. They can argue about the advantages and disadvantages of operating systems, models of smartphones, set-top boxes, cameras. Holivars arise about food preferences, for example, between vegetarians and meat eaters, between representatives of different subcultures. In general, all types of human activities can be considered in the context of holivar, you can start such a dispute for any reason.