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How I Deal with Harassment, Abuse, and Crazies in General

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Re: How I Deal with Harassment, Abuse, and Crazies in General

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Post by SyneRyder »

realusername wrote: post #58
pmiller2 wrote: post #2

This 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.

Facebook is honestly not that bad on this because your "friends" circle makes it harder for a post to go completely viral. Twitter on the other hand is really dangerous because you can just make a tweet which pisses off some random celebrity and face a huge backlash, this is really scary.

It depends on the social groups. In some ways Facebook can be worse, because the circle it goes viral in are the people you know in real life and interact with day-to-day. I have seen people make up rumours and publish them on Facebook, with the deliberate intention of hurting and destroying the life of someone they know, just because they felt slighted. Having anonymous crazies from around the world threatening you must be scary - but I can't imagine how it would feel to have friends and the people you turn to for support stop talking to you because of an accusation they read online.

Re: How I Deal with Harassment, Abuse, and Crazies in General

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

I see this article as a sign that we are slowly realising how shit some parts of the internet have become for the people who use them everyday.

There were some recent articles in big news sites about how their comments attract the worse kind of trolling and what they plan to do, or are doing, about it. Maybe a few years from now we'll have found some sort of resolution to all this but currently, we have a problem.

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Post by kelukelugames »

martincmartin wrote: post #74
kelukelugames wrote: post #73

Did this get flagged off the frontpage? looks like it. Sigh.

No, after 13 hours it just fell off of it organically. If you filter out low scoring posts you can still see it.

There were posts with longer hours and fewer points ahead of it.

Re: How I Deal with Harassment, Abuse, and Crazies in General

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Post by pmiller2 »

realusername wrote: post #58
pmiller2 wrote: post #2

This 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.

Facebook is honestly not that bad on this because your "friends" circle makes it harder for a post to go completely viral. Twitter on the other hand is really dangerous because you can just make a tweet which pisses off some random celebrity and face a huge backlash, this is really scary.

I've seen something like this happen to someone I know. :(

Re: How I Deal with Harassment, Abuse, and Crazies in General

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Post by Chris2048 »

ams6110 wrote: post #5

When 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…

You don't explicitly say this but, were these nasty or threatening letters?

Re: How I Deal with Harassment, Abuse, and Crazies in General

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Post by Chris2048 »

bpchaps wrote: post #41
TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that this time next week / month / year someone will take huge offence to the terms 'weird' or 'bizarre'. This is a witch hunt and the target is any word that can be used to differentiate. We need to remember that we do not have a right to be offended.

No, stop that line of thinking. Please. When someone is called crazy, they're making a parallel to a crazy person on a train screaming about how they didn't take their meds. When someone who has legitimate mental health issues is called crazy, it makes light of a very serious issue that's incredibly difficult. It has next to nothing to do with being offended. We all accept that we have issues that we're mostly able t…

> When someone is called crazy, they're making a parallel to a crazy person on a train screaming about how they didn't take their meds.

"Citation needed" for this, especially when a post back an opposing opinion was offered:

> not strictly about mental health, implies lack of self-control or good judgement

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