What's the most ridiculous reason why someone sent you death threats?
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I've never had any death threats sent to me lol. From the title of your post, it sounds like you get them regularly??
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Is it common for people to get death threats?
Or at least get enough that you can start ranking them by category?
Maybe I'm just lucky.
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I've been on the internet since the 90's, and a lot of that has included online gaming, so I just assume that I've received a few. But none that I remember.
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I’ve had people annoyed with me, especially once when I did a drastic, much-needed, and long-overdue overhaul of a UI in software with millions of users (people hate even minor change in software they use every day, so there’s no way to not piss some of them off when you change things like that), but I’ve never, in all my time online since 1996, received death threats. And I used to make a hobby of arguing with actual Nazis on reddit.
What are you saying to people?
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I think the one time I kept taunting that one guy about fucking his Mom in the butt. He threatened to kill me when I live-streamed it. Fucking ridiculous.
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Not a literal death threat, but close.
I once told someone screaming at the bus driver to be reasonable. It was a replacement bus service during winter because the aboveground metros couldn’t drive anymore. The buses were loaded with people, and someone apparently felt ill and had to get out of the bus, so people were screaming at the bus driver to stop. We were driving on the highway, though - you can’t just get out there, even if it wasn’t dangerous anyway.
If I remember correctly the bus driver stopped when it was possible and the ill person got off. When I got out at my stop, the person screaming the loudest got off as well, turned to face me and said: ‘I hope you get cancer.’
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Posting vaguely feminist quotes on social media way back in the 2010s ¯\(ツ)/¯
Terminally online gamergate era proto-chuds got big mad over cheesy screencaps ig lmao
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Existing.
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Is it common for people to get death threats?
Or at least get enough that you can start ranking them by category?
Maybe I'm just lucky.
wrote last edited by [email protected]If you have any project or product you made public facing that someone could remotely perceive as partisan or biased, you're likely to get at least one in your life.
Doesn't make it okay, but it seems inevitable.
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Telegram: Someone threatened to kill me and my family if I don't transfer them my username. Some people are so sick.
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I used to work for Facebook, and in their UI, it keeps you from taking a username less than 5 letters, but there was nothing in the database to stop it. So, I removed the check, brought up an instance on my dev server, and took the username “h”. I got a lot of threats for that.
I’m no longer on Facebook.
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If you have any project or product you made public facing that someone could remotely perceive as partisan or biased, you're likely to get at least one in your life.
Doesn't make it okay, but it seems inevitable.
Not necessarily. Perhaps I’ve been lucky. I’ve been in charge of UX for very large software, and am an author. My identity has been very public since the late 90s.
I’ve had very vitriolic (and sometimes graphic) DMs and emails, but no death threats. Like I said, I guess I’ve been lucky.
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Because I don’t like Mary Jane and said One More Day opened up better story telling possibilities for Spider-Man and I think JMS is a hack.
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Facebook: Got comments from by wife's brother and his friends about God's blessing and such being responsible for her pregnancy.
"It's 2013. We have a pretty solid handle on how a woman gets pregnant, and there's no god in the explanation."
Of my fuck they exploded. "I'll fucking kill you!" "Best not come back to this town!" So it goes.
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Being a Christian
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I've been on the internet since the 90's, and a lot of that has included online gaming, so I just assume that I've received a few. But none that I remember.
You must not play any mobas
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Being a Christian
I strongly doubt that was the reason. What was the context?
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I was working for an ISP and sent one of our customers a warning about harassing people via email. He switched to me instead. It escalated up the chain to my manager's manager, who called the customer's dad because he was 14. Dad got him under control, because the alternative was to lose his phone service for 12 months.
A year later, the kid contacted me again to say I should give him a job, because I'm an incompetent fuck and users shouldn't have to put up with me. Would you be surprised to learn we didn't hire him?
Every few years I stalk his blog to see what he's been up to. There's usually a couple more arrests to add to the tally, but like always they weren't his fault, because someone provoked him!
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Is it common for people to get death threats?
Or at least get enough that you can start ranking them by category?
Maybe I'm just lucky.
I'll kill you for this comment.
