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.

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.

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’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 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.

I was openly an atheist in highschool (early 2000s). Death threats weren’t sent, they were spoken to my face

Because I referred to Christianity as a cult.

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’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?

Nobody ever had strong enough feelings for me to either send me love letter or death threats

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.

I played D&D 4e with a group of childhood friends for a few years in college. One of them was bipolar. Anyways we had been playing 4e for two years. New campaign. We were using character builder, which spat out our damage damage for us in the following notation:

X[w] + Stat

For those who don’t know, 4e made use of “Powers” which are basically spells as you might think of how those function in 5e. Martial classes bought a weapon, which was a series of properties that carried over through out all your powers. That notates as [w], so the longsword has [w]= 1d8. Powers vary in how powerful they were. Each class has At-will, encounter, and Dailys… similar in function to short and long rest recharging abilities. My point is that encounters or dailys might do 2[w] or 3[w] or 4[w]. Use a longsword with Villain’s Menace and its 3d8. Then add your strength.

He saw 1[d8] + 5

My friend rolled his damage. He saw the +5 noted for his strength, and then he forgot it was for that and added 5 again.

So he rolled 1d8 +5 +5

I told him he only added 5 once. This blossomed into an argument which carried on for an hour. He went home. And then the next day he sent me over 2000 words on facebooks in threats and death messages.

A week later, he messaged me again, and noted that I was right. He apologized. And then he told me I could have been less of an asshole.

Not sent but spoken on the phone.

I worked for the tax services on the phone and received a call from a woman who needed to pay back some money, more than she could afford. Before she spoke to me she had been given advice by someone from the tax office she had met in person and they had told her she wouldn’t need to pay back anything. This was wrong, but we were not allowed to say that someone from the tax office made a mistake, even if it was obviously so.

She blamed me, personally, for making her pay back the money and then threatened to kill me. So I guess a death threat for fixing someone else’s fuck up is the stupidest reason yet.

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