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.
Rhynoplaz: The most ridiculous - this guy/girl threatened to kill me one time on Lemmy because I asked if people get death threats often.
Are you American?
I started keeping a log, a keepsake heirloom, when I was 8.
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.
Family gatherings must be something.
Then why does she scream ‘oh my god!!! Jesus! Yes yes!!! Oh my fucking god!!!’ when we’re working on making her pregnant?
My wife prays to Crom when I’m hitting it.
I’ve never had any death threats sent to me lol. From the title of your post, it sounds like you get them regularly??
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!
I must ask. Please post his blog link.
Wouldn’t that be doxxing?
Might be a fine line for a non public figure, but it’s not too different from providing someone’s Twitter handle after mentioning they were a dipshit. Assuming it’s a public facing blog.
Well… I’m going to hold off in any case, because it doesn’t take much reading to realise he has some kind of mental disorder. He might be an asshole as well as being disordered, but sharing his details would feel too much like collectively pointing and laughing at the disabled guy.
Totally fair, and makes sense.
Fair enough
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.
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
I was openly an atheist in highschool (early 2000s). Death threats weren’t sent, they were spoken to my face
I came to say this too. Such pious folks, willing to kill for their gods
Gods who specifically said ‘blessed are the peace-makers’, no less.
Well, obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturer of dairy products.
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?
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.
Not condoning the death threats, but live-streaming the butt-fucking of his mom is a bit much.
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.’
Nobody ever had strong enough feelings for me to either send me love letter or death threats
I was talking with a girl. Absolutely just talking, nothing else, not trying to get anywhere with her. Still got a “I’ll kill ya” from a guy I did not know, who supposedly was her boyfriend.
Didn’t turn out well. I learned not much later that she kicked him out for being permanently jealous.
Telegram: Someone threatened to kill me and my family if I don’t transfer them my username. Some people are so sick.
Still waiting on that username, bub.
I was hired for a job some guy had been fired from several years earlier. There had been at least one other person in the position after him and before me. But for some reason he found out about me, decided I was a problem, and I had to get escorted to and from my car in the employee parking and the building each day for a couple of weeks until he lost interest.
And more pedestrian yet depressing, the stereotypical: I politely declined unwanted advances from a strange man in a bar, strange man promptly lost all emotional control and proved I made the right decision.
Because I referred to Christianity as a cult.
