I'm new and see people talk about feeding. Can someone explain the mechanics and strategy behind this term?

On a somewhat related note (related to winning strategies), I notice NPC buffs seem to help, but don't know how. Is there a link someone could post for a good explanation of these buffs?

Feeding is where you die to the same champion/champions multiple times in a row, your typically called a feeder when your kill to death ratio goes horribly negative. This gives the opposing team a large lead in gold over yourself and your team, as well as severe experience loss for yourself due to the downtime of being dead.

As far as neutral buffs go, that depends on the map. On Summoners Rift, you have the golem buff which gives massive mana regen and cooldown reduction, the lizard buff which adds damage to your physical attacks and slows the targets movement, and lastly you have the baron buff, which is like steroids for you character.

On Twisted Treeline however you have the lizard buff, which is the same as the before, the wolf buff which if I dont have them backwards is a cooldown and attack speed buff, and the wraith buff which is a movement speed buff. also on both maps there is a dragon the difference being on twisted treeline is provides a global damage boost to your team, not just gold and exp.

To feed effectively, you should pretend your hero is a creep and run blindly into the range of turrets and enemy heroes while ignoring any other factors. The conditions for using this strategy are only limited by your run speed and respawn time.

Lol I thought this was a troll thread at first, but I guess not. Anyways, yeah: feeding is bad. But don't sweat it too much, we all have bad games. I guarantee you that in almos every match, you'll see at least one feeder to some extent or another. Hope it's not on your team.