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I hate Unity as next guy, but please don't do this. Vote with your engine choice, not death threat.
by raincole 3y ago
I hate Unity as next guy, but please don't do this. Vote with your engine choice, not death threat.
- switchbak 3y agoI don't think the person making the threat is reading HN comments. Not sure who you're addressing here.
- robswc 3y agoYea. I don't blame OP for the sentiment but I don't think anyone doing something like that could be reasoned with in the first place.
- adamredwoods 3y agoIf we don't speak out against it, show alternate forms of rebelling, then more people will see violence as acceptable responses to anger.
- altairprime 3y agoHN aggressively moderates hateful and harmful comments, so they’re often not seen before they get flagged or removed. I’ve personally reported enough comments this year that I’m confident saying that some number of people who use threats of violence to silence those they disagree with are both reading and participating on HN, and so by the lurker principle, many more are reading HN but not behaving in that manner here. Thankfully, those few that participate are not the majority — but their perceived absence is the result of both peer pressure (via flags) and moderators (via bans) silencing their speech, not due to ‘we’re better than that here’.
- Capricorn2481 3y agoI wouldn't be so sure of that. HN can't see an article on a open source frontend framework without someone equating it's maintainer to Hitler or getting on a soap box about how they're ruining the web. People in here have a view of the world that is rarely shared, even by people in tech. Take an actual company making a visibly greedy decision and I would not be surprised.
- mrguyorama 3y agoHN has literal nazis (as in "death to all jews") occasionally posting. We aren't special
- itishappy 3y agoIt's an open forum. I just watched one get removed from this very thread.
- jstarfish 3y agoEither the perpetrator or any potential copycats who might think to do the same. This sort of crap becoming widespread will eventually result in the death of privacy for everyone.
- barryrandall 3y agoIf you can buy upvotes for a platform, then it's probably big enough that a nonzero percentage of its users is exactly the kind of person who would make death threats.
- switchbak 3y agoSure, but i said “the person“. I think the odds of him talking to that person are effectively zero. And as if his message is going to change his mind! Thus my question.
- logicalmonster 3y agoFirst, prove that a credible death threat actually happened. And by credible, a baseline for that should be an actual police report being filed, putting somebody on the hook for possible false police reports if it was fabricated. All public claims of death threats when somebody is going through a bad PR cycle should be considered somewhat suspect unless some kind of police report or credible evidence is provided.
- itishappy 3y ago> First, prove... No. Don't send death threats! This shouldn't need to be predicated by anything. If Unity made this whole story up, still don't.
- logicalmonster 3y agoCan you please point to where I ever endorsed sending death threats? PRO TIP: You can't.
- itishappy 3y agoNever implied you did.
- squeaky-clean 3y agoTheir point is do we even know a death threat was sent? Or is Unity just trying to get the previous news about their licensing change buried under some sympathetic story about a death threat being sent?
- itishappy 3y agoI get that, but remember the context: > I hate Unity as next guy, but please don't do this. Vote with your engine choice, not death threat. Do we care if a death threat was actually sent in this context? Would it change anything about this statement? Did they mean to reply to someone else?