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Not to minimize the issue, but receiving death threats is rapidly becoming part of being a public figure on the Internet. Columnists, reporters, celebrities, an

Not to minimize the issue, but receiving death threats is rapidly becoming part of being a public figure on the Internet. Columnists, reporters, celebrities, and many others receive them all the time. It's definitely unacceptable, but it's not like we have shown an ability to control it, and I can't think of any assassinations of high-profile Internet figures. I'm surprised you're surprised at people, though! Death threats are regularly meted out over FAR more inconsequential things. I haven't received any myself but colleagues have... and then again I didn't look too closely at the comments on my gun control article. Anyway - it sucks, but it's pretty much the norm for people like Eich to receive death threats pretty regularly.

npinguy 13y ago
I really wish when people talked about "death threats", there was some clarification on what that actually means. Is it a detailed email summarized as "I know where you live, you better watch your step, because I'm going to kill you"? Or a tweet of "Fuck off and die"
byuu 13y ago
> Not to minimize the issue, but receiving death threats is rapidly becoming part of being a public figure on the Internet. Indeed, I've gotten quite a few death threats myself over the years for my radical cause of trying to improve the quality of video game emulators. The problem with the internet is that you can't really judge a person's mental state from a text post. Quite often the person on the other end making the threats is literally mentally ill.
- err4nt 13y ago
  I was a LONGTIME Digger before that though had even occurred to me. The crazy folks who shout at you on the bus aren't exactly going to be eloquent when they sit down to type are they ;)
- varkson 13y ago
  Wow really? I don't get why someone would be against a more accurate emulator, especially to the point of death threats. I love your work by the way.
  - BHSPitMonkey 13y ago
    Get to be an exec at Nintendo or Sony and you might feel differently!
- devindotcom 13y ago
  >my radical cause of trying to improve the quality of video game emulators. God's work. Thank you for this.

npinguy 13y ago

I really wish when people talked about "death threats", there was some clarification on what that actually means. Is it a detailed email summarized as "I know where you live, you better watch your step, because I'm going to kill you"? Or a tweet of "Fuck off and die"

byuu 13y ago

> Not to minimize the issue, but receiving death threats is rapidly becoming part of being a public figure on the Internet. Indeed, I've gotten quite a few death threats myself over the years for my radical cause of trying to improve the quality of video game emulators. The problem with the internet is that you can't really judge a person's mental state from a text post. Quite often the person on the other end making the threats is literally mentally ill.

err4nt 13y ago
I was a LONGTIME Digger before that though had even occurred to me. The crazy folks who shout at you on the bus aren't exactly going to be eloquent when they sit down to type are they ;)
varkson 13y ago
Wow really? I don't get why someone would be against a more accurate emulator, especially to the point of death threats. I love your work by the way.
- BHSPitMonkey 13y ago
  Get to be an exec at Nintendo or Sony and you might feel differently!
devindotcom 13y ago
>my radical cause of trying to improve the quality of video game emulators. God's work. Thank you for this.