• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
    33·
    17 days ago

    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.

      • ripcord@lemmy.world
        6·
        17 days ago

        Rhynoplaz: The most ridiculous - this guy/girl threatened to kill me one time on Lemmy because I asked if people get death threats often.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      5·
      17 days ago

      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.

      • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        17 days ago

        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.

  • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    17 days ago

    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

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    17 days ago

    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.

  • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    17 days ago

    I’ve never had any death threats sent to me lol. From the title of your post, it sounds like you get them regularly??

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    10·
    17 days ago

    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.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
    9·
    17 days ago

    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!

  • charade_you_are@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    17 days ago

    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.

  • Hasherm0n@lemmy.world
    7·
    17 days ago

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

  • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    17 days ago

    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?

  • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    16 days ago

    My biological brother: for basicly all the time when i argue against him and prove him wrong. Last time: for showing him with litteral math that salt water does not take longer to boil!

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    3·
    16 days ago

    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.