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I'd strongly prefer to focus on honoring the memory of Ian, but... while googling, I found this page: (warning, it's a 4chan thread, overflowing with hateful

I'd strongly prefer to focus on honoring the memory of Ian, but... while googling, I found this page: (warning, it's a 4chan thread, overflowing with hateful comments) https://archive.is/2Cdj1 https://archive.is/2Cdj1 In there, horrible people are inviting other horrible people to go on twitter and troll (i.e. harass) Ian. If you're close to taking your own life, you want to be close to your loved ones, and the last thing you want is to get random people calling you names. Really crushes my faith in humanity. We need more people like Ian.

SpaceCadetJones 11y ago
On a daily basis I see people making the most idiotic and insensitive comments backed by sophomoric reasoning, and it really hurts my hope. At the same time, I notice if I look for the good I seem to find a lot more, and it comes from typically much more intelligent/rational sounding people. Keep pushing forward the good. The kind of people who make it far in life will notice and follow, while the hateful juveniles will continue to fade out.
jbhatab 11y ago
It's called politically incorrect on 4chan?!?! What did you expect?
punchingwater 11y ago
> (quote from imurdock's twitter) Maybe my suicide at this, you now, a successful business man, not a NIGGER, will finally bring some attention to this very serious issue. This sounds a lot more like 4chan trolls than it does one of the leading lights of OSS. I know people are trying not to speculate, but I wouldn't be surprised if his account was hacked. In any case, I think you can honor they memory of Ian and still try to find out what happened to him.
pikzen 11y ago
It's /pol/. /pol/ was created as a containment zone for idiots because they were too much of a hassle on /b/ (the board where literally anything goes.). The only people taking /pol/ seriously on 4chan are the /pol/acks themselves.
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SpaceCadetJones 11y ago

On a daily basis I see people making the most idiotic and insensitive comments backed by sophomoric reasoning, and it really hurts my hope. At the same time, I notice if I look for the good I seem to find a lot more, and it comes from typically much more intelligent/rational sounding people. Keep pushing forward the good. The kind of people who make it far in life will notice and follow, while the hateful juveniles will continue to fade out.

jbhatab 11y ago

It's called politically incorrect on 4chan?!?! What did you expect?

punchingwater 11y ago

> (quote from imurdock's twitter) Maybe my suicide at this, you now, a successful business man, not a NIGGER, will finally bring some attention to this very serious issue. This sounds a lot more like 4chan trolls than it does one of the leading lights of OSS. I know people are trying not to speculate, but I wouldn't be surprised if his account was hacked. In any case, I think you can honor they memory of Ian and still try to find out what happened to him.

pikzen 11y ago

It's /pol/. /pol/ was created as a containment zone for idiots because they were too much of a hassle on /b/ (the board where literally anything goes.). The only people taking /pol/ seriously on 4chan are the /pol/acks themselves.

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