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What's the most ridiculous reason why someone sent you death threats?

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  • cm0002@lemmy.worldC [email protected]

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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.

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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.

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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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          • cm0002@lemmy.worldC [email protected]

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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.

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              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.

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                      You must not play any mobas

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                        Being a Christian

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                        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.

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                            I'll kill you for this comment.

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                            • cm0002@lemmy.worldC [email protected]

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                              Definitely this one: https://lemmy.world/comment/19647019

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                                I strongly doubt that was the reason. What was the context?

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                                I strongly doubt that was the reason

                                Lol, with what's happening in the world?

                                Something something snarky reddit atheist post about Christianity being false. I countered it, then they said that someone should start a campaign of hunting down Christians

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                                  For having a cartoon dog as my avatar. On Reddit, tho. No death threats from Lemmy. Yet.

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                                    I strongly doubt that was the reason

                                    Lol, with what's happening in the world?

                                    Something something snarky reddit atheist post about Christianity being false. I countered it, then they said that someone should start a campaign of hunting down Christians

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                                    Well that sucks, and I’m sorry. It sounds like you encountered an unhinged psychopath, like others here who had weirdos latch onto them for stupid reasons that had nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.

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                                    • lillypip@lemmy.caL [email protected]

                                      Well that sucks, and I’m sorry. It sounds like you encountered an unhinged psychopath, like others here who had weirdos latch onto them for stupid reasons that had nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.

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                                      Yeah. Most people are fine on here. Some people may have been abused by a facade of Christianity, so I get it

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                                        I'll kill you for this comment.

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                                        Rhynoplaz: The most ridiculous - this guy/girl threatened to kill me one time on Lemmy because I asked if people get death threats often.

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                                        • cm0002@lemmy.worldC [email protected]

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                                          Posted a comment that someone didn't like on here lol.

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