Being a Christian
I strongly doubt that was the reason. What was the context?
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
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.
Yeah. Most people are fine on here. Some people may have been abused by a facade of Christianity, so I get it
Christianity has a persecution fetish. I highly doubt that it was just for being one, unless you live in a Muslim country.
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
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.
Work isp tech support for a spell, you’ll catch up.
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.
Personal death threats: I was a mod on a Facebook group that banned a guy for being hostile to others, and this guy turned out to be paranoid and probably had some other mental health issues going on and believed there was a vast conspiracy against him with us working with people we had never heard of and with other online forums that he had been hostile on
Impersonal death threats: just the typical stuff from rightwingers for being harmlessly different in some way
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’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?
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
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.’
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.
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 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.
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.
Existing.
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.
