How I Deal with Harassment, Abuse, and Crazies in General
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How I Deal with Harassment, Abuse, and Crazies in General
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#2This is a part of why I'm quite selective about what I post online. The major part is that I value my privacy and don't really want random people knowing everything about me. I don't want to be a public figure. I avoid Facebook and Twitter, too, so that really reduces my surface area for this type of attack.
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#3I'd like to point out that one's public persona can be different from ones private persona. Lots of public people use that approach, and for good reason.
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#4> Crazies in General
I wonder if, given the social unacceptability of mental illness, it will ever be socially unacceptable to slur mental illness.
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#5When I release a game or write something visible to the whole world, even a tiny something (Warning: Twitter counts!), I am acting as a public figure. A teeny tiny one, but a public figure nonetheless. Public figures have always received hate mail, abuse, threats, and messages from the unhinged, and they always will. Alas, the internet makes them much easier to deliver.
Very true. Years ago I sent a "letter to the editor" to the local newspaper. Nothing too controversial, just an opinion about some local politics. I received several unsigned letter in the mail over the following days, no return address, etc. and that was just from a small town community.
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#6> Crazies in General I wonder if, given the social unacceptability of mental illness, it will ever be socially unacceptable to slur mental illness.
I don't see a slur there.
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#7> Being harassed is harmful. It's easy to say, "Just toughen up. Walk away from the screen." until you've actually experienced it.
Now that a man says this, hopefully some more nerds will actually listen to it.
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#8I'd like to point out that one's public persona can be different from ones private persona. Lots of public people use that approach, and for good reason.
I don't know because I haven't met the man, but I hear Zed Shaw is a good example of this that a lot of people here could probably relate to.
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#9When I release a game or write something visible to the whole world, even a tiny something (Warning: Twitter counts!), I am acting as a public figure. A teeny tiny one, but a public figure nonetheless. Public figures have always received hate mail, abuse, threats, and messages from the unhinged, and they always will. Alas, the internet makes them much easier to deliver. Very true. Years ago I sent a "letter to the ed…
> ...opinion about some local politics. ... small town community.
Well, right there is actually the reason. The smaller the pond you're in, the smaller the fish you need to be to make waves. If everybody knows who you are, you can bet a couple people are going to speak up.