Are You Sure You Want to Quit the World? (2011) • Hacker News Board

Re: Are You Sure You Want to Quit the World? (2011)

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Post by kazinator » Sat, Jan 16, 2016, 6:49 PM UTC

bobwaycott wrote: post #10

From 2011. Perhaps title should reflect this. Also, alt.suicide.holiday is a Google discussion group? Sigh.

Indeed! If you think alt.suicide.holiday is a Google group, please, don't quit the world --- but do quit Usenet. Thanks!

Re: Are You Sure You Want to Quit the World? (2011)

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Post by dsjoerg » Sat, Jan 16, 2016, 6:55 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #9

darishante wrote: post #8

"ASH [alt.suicide.holiday] began as a Google discussion group" ... stopped reading at this. Do your damn research. Also, get off my lawn.

I think you'd be surprised at the number of people who have no idea about what usenet is. Dejanews still lives on in google discussion groups, and that may be the reason why it is mentioned as such, the reporter may very well realize this is not factual but does not want to spend 3 paragraphs explaining what usenet is, what it's rather complex ancestry is and where it ended up today. It's a white lie. I read the arti…

it doesn't take three paragraphs. here, watch this: "ASH began as an internet discussion group about why suicide rates increase over the holidays,"

Re: Are You Sure You Want to Quit the World? (2011)

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Post by pasbesoin » Sat, Jan 16, 2016, 6:57 PM UTC

johansch wrote: post #2

To view this, pick your poison: pay them or subject yourself to a security risk (i.e. disable adblocking).

For this site, you can simply load with Javascript disabled and then disable CSS.

Re: Are You Sure You Want to Quit the World? (2011)

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Post by mhuangw » Sat, Jan 16, 2016, 7:12 PM UTC

I've been suicidal on and off at various points in my life. Luckily I never got involved with these kinds of communities online, as I thought they might exacerbate the issue.

Re: Are You Sure You Want to Quit the World? (2011)

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Post by dang » Sat, Jan 16, 2016, 7:15 PM UTC

bobwaycott wrote: post #10

From 2011. Perhaps title should reflect this. Also, alt.suicide.holiday is a Google discussion group? Sigh.

Thanks, year added.

Re: Are You Sure You Want to Quit the World? (2011)

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Post by apatters » Sat, Jan 16, 2016, 7:19 PM UTC

This article was a morbid piece of shock journalism, the kind of thing you'd read for the same reasons that you can't stop looking at a gruesome car crash. So I'm actually pretty happy that I was able to remove the nag message in Firebug and read the article with my ad blocker turned on. I would regret it if GQ made money off of my visit and used that money to write more articles like this.

Re: Are You Sure You Want to Quit the World? (2011)

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Post by CapitalistCartr » Sat, Jan 16, 2016, 7:36 PM UTC

PhoenixWright wrote: post #5

This is another reminder to be weary of strangers you meet online.

Indeed, and wary, too. On a more serious note, my sister found such a community and they helped her to commit suicide. It does happen.

Re: Are You Sure You Want to Quit the World? (2011)

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Post by Mahn » Sat, Jan 16, 2016, 7:51 PM UTC

PhoenixWright wrote: post #5

This is another reminder to be weary of strangers you meet online.

It's depressing that internet makes it so easy for a person with a mental disorder to give advice and lure confused teenagers and minors. I wonder if there's anything we can do, short of censoring internet itself.