All of a sudden he appeared as a third competitor, skied the Flying Scud with four fat bids of a thousand dollars each, and then as suddenly fled the field, remaining thenceforth (as before) a silent, interested spectator.

Coordinate term: button

While an angstfic can focus mostly on emotional pain and never resolve it, actually doing something awful to a character, such as torture, rape, maiming, that kind of thing, seems to require a payoff. Otherwise it seems gratuitous, and also as if you're inviting people to take pleasure in a character's suffering.

[…] reposted bombmaking and narcotics manuals from notorious publishers like Paladin and Loompanics. Some of these reposters alluded to the “Feinstein Amendment” as an abridgement of speech and motivator behind their repostings.