Flamed? (Score 1)

I was until now under the impression that the term flame referred to thoughtless namecalling and the like in response to a post; however, you used in this case to refer to simply a lot of posts. None of these posts said things like "you're dumb." or "you suck." They were all rational discussions of the topic. Is this really flaming? I'm just curious to know which of these definitions best describes the common use of the term "flame."