Mommy wants to help you 'get along better' by taking control.
 
One way to not appear as a flamer is to take the 'mother superior' position to help you improve your language and personality to avoid confrontation. This is still a flamer.
 
a. This person is not on the site to answer the technical question of the first post.
b. The person is attending to your 'bad character' which is a put-down in itself, extends the focus on you, and gives the tag-team flamers their superior-position reward.
c. They are inciting others to join them in the gang-bash, as they need backup and admirers.
d. They usually pick moderators to bash, as that gives them authority (to eliminate willing volunteers with skills in favor of unqualified politicians with whom they are more comfortable, as they know nothing about the technical aspects of the forum they are visiting, they want to convert it to political commentary. They specialize in politics of 'baby,' bunny,' kitty,' 'doggy,' etc.)

This being accepted, the wonder is why they are on the technical site at all? Usually they do not post in the forum, so they might be waiting for someone to advise them of the opportunity to intercede in someone else's thread; or they might have felt uncomfortable before, so were jumping to the chance to 'get revenge.' A hurt personality has no tolerance for humor, but will call humor, however poor, 'sarcastic' even though the definition of sarcasm requires the intent to hurt. They can find hurt in any statement.

A major religion in corporate America is the tin 'god of competition.' Thus, many engage in it, even when no reward is tangible. Moderators are rarely paid for their time, so are probably doing it for entertainment.

Interceder Flaming Pattern:

A. Look at a conversation.
B. Find a disagreement.
C. Jump in to take control between
OR
before the disagreement fades away.

Flamers like getting in-between as they can gain a control or superior-position prize as a 'hall-monitor' or 'neighborhood watch;' which they interpret as a one-up over a moderator, and provides an opportunity to 'get-even' with past abuse they've experienced.

They will refuse to recognize their chosen interceder pose in relationships nor that they repeat such actions through-out life, so it can happen repeatedly (so one can take the position). Blind repetition is eccentric, damaging repetition is insanity, repeated intercession is police work. (Stable people might wonder why the young will choose to place themselves in harm's way doing police or military front-line work.).

Hurt people will do this on the web as there is protection at a distance from actual people. When people are arguing on the street, police will jump in. When students argue in school, administration jumps in. However, a post personality on the web is neither; but they want to take the role. Few 'peace-makers' will jump in between arguers in the street, unless they are armed with a 'peacemaker' and full professional paid authority, as it can be hazardous.

It is all repetition of the 5-person game, which is a well-described pattern of co-dependent personalities:

[victim - savior - punisher - supplier - fool]

The way out is to not do it again.

They usually exit with the statement: "I feel sorry for you." which is a declaration of one-upmanship superiority by 'looking down their nose.' They generally are sorry, and take care to spread that sorrow.

Other epithets are: Condescending and Curmudgeon.

It is another variation on the hall-monitor, teacher, and mommy. It makes them appear to be responsible and mature, while they are 'talking-down' to you; but they are not attending to the original post. They can be of some help IF they actually write a better, more diplomatic, rewrite of your intentions in your post to get the original poster to think about what they are getting themselves into (Police who do this are a blessing.) Much of the content of this page is a result of on-line meetings with so many flamers.