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I don't think the person making the threat is reading HN comments. Not sure who you're addressing here.

robswc 3y ago
Yea. 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 ago
  If 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 ago
HN 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 ago
I 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 ago
HN has literal nazis (as in "death to all jews") occasionally posting. We aren't special
itishappy 3y ago
It's an open forum. I just watched one get removed from this very thread.
jstarfish 3y ago
Either 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 ago
If 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 ago
  Sure, 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.

Yea. 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 ago
If 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 ago

HN 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 ago

I 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 ago

HN has literal nazis (as in "death to all jews") occasionally posting. We aren't special

itishappy 3y ago

It's an open forum. I just watched one get removed from this very thread.

jstarfish 3y ago

Either 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 ago

If 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 ago
Sure, 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.