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.
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.
Are you American?
I started keeping a log, a keepsake heirloom, when I was 8.
I had closed the gate to my checkout, turned out the light, wiped everything down, took my till out and had walked away a bit when I saw a customer start loading his groceries on the now-abandoned belt.
i walked back to try to help by simply saying, “Sorry man, that checkout is closed, you’ll have to go a few up to get through.”
I went upstairs, counted my till and posted my results, got my stuff and went to leave.
Suddenly my bosses are on me checking if I’m okay, and I’m being escorted off-site by security for my safety.
Apparently the man was not appreciative, went to the managers and told them he was going to wait for me outside so he could run me over…
I made a PR/commit to to a foss android kernel for ‘tap to wake’ ported from fork to another model. I fully attributed where and who and complied with the GPL. The guy lost his shit and threatened my very existence, over around 20 lines of code.
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.
Well, obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturer of dairy products.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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?
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
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.
I once had a conversation about economics with a different person. Just something clicked in some other guy and sent them down a spiral.
