Comments on: Online death threats are still death threats

By: Dani

Dani — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:18:01 +0000

People how in the heck do you know if she has no proof or not? Uh sorry but let’s not jump to things here she may but does people have to post every little deatil of what goes on? I mean serious this stuff needs to be taken a little bit more serious ! Either way making death threats in alot of states it is the law plain & simple !

By: Dani

Dani — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:14:23 +0000

If you are that dumb to make death threats and think nothing can happen oh it can believe me this greentea has been making racial slurs, slander, & making up stuff about me saying I have abortions and i’m a hoe and my kids should be killed what the heck I think shes a nutcase on the loose and people like her should not be out but locked up somewhere……….

By: Dani

Dani — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:11:20 +0000

Yes, very much there a woman online making death threats to me & another woman who are military family members she is in her 20’s screename greentea 143 but anyway we said stop ! Then she says the military should die and she’ll kill our kids not cool……… this person should be kicked offline but they allow her to get back on even though they have proof of what she types ! As an adult her self she should not act the way she does and there was a person who told her it is the law she said no and they were dumb ! So she is clueless I guess !

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:32:21 +0000

I have been receiving death threats online here recently an i don’t know how to go about all this. It stated in an online mmorpg. online game. this person has found where i am from. phone number add. how i do not know i have none of that posted online. or saved in my computer.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:54:14 +0000

I don’t really understand much of this, but i have even recieved death threats by someone online. I don’t even know them. They just laughed when i said it was serious and i should be telling someone. It is a dangerous world now.

By: Sami

Sami — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Good call about editing the post. As for letting it go on, I think, that it’s a police matter… If they can track the guy down, they can ascertain as to the state of his mind and whether or not he’s a real threat to her. The whole thing just seems to me to be some mean-spirited fun gone wrong. Reading it from my end, it does seem far over the line, but not yet in danger to her life territory, despite what she might feel.

By: dnorman

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

OK. How’s this: It wasn’t Chris that sent the death threats. I don’t know who it was. Talk to Kathy Sierra.

Good enough?

By: dnorman

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

hmmm… re-re-reading my post, it does come across as though I’m saying Chris was the one making death threats. That’s not what I meant to say. That’s the problem of writing in the moment. I’ll think of a better way to reword it, and edit the post appropriately.

By: dnorman

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Sami, to be clear, I never suggested that Chris was the one uttering death threats, only that he was mentioned on Kathy Sierra’s blog post as being a participant in some of the bs she had to endure.

I think this goes far, far beyond trolling or playing. Read through Kathy’s post, follow some links, google some names. This is not just a tongue-in-cheek “it’s all done in fun” type of thing. This was an extended, directed, graphic series of attacks on an individual.

Ignoring this is exactly what lets it propagate in the first place. Bullies are able to exist because we allow them to. It only stops if we all say enough.

By: Cleve Miller

Cleve Miller — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

You’re right that he’s a total creep – his post defending himself as a victim of all this is pretty ironic given the trademark, look-at-me-please verbal aggression that he uses as his blogging voice.