Hi Gallbladder, and welcome.
Lesson number 1:
News Views and Gossip (NVG) is a place where you come to get flamed. NVG is a shark-tank and they are always hungry. Hungry sharks are not friendly.
Lesson number 2:
There are loads of abbreviations used here. Do not worry, after a while you will learn, like I have, to pretend to know what they mean.