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.
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 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.
Fair enough
Totally fair, and makes sense.
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 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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Nobody ever had strong enough feelings for me to either send me love letter or death threats
Scoring more goals than them in Rocket League
Existing.
Because I referred to Christianity as a cult.
