Does anyone have a tl;dr as to wtf is going on? How does something like this escalate to this level?
Agreed, this is completely baffling. Either I'm missing something in the story, or my model of how the world works is broken.
Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger
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Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger
#32Am I the only one who would just … walk outside and talk to the 4channers who showed up? Probably offer them a cig and a meme. I’ve been thinking of tweeting my home address, so this is a relevant concern. What do you even do when someone comes to your house, other than listen to them? It could also be true that they did something a lot less friendly, like “bang on the windows and run away laughing.” That would be un…
If you are seriously that naive, don't post your address on Twitter. It is a bad idea.
Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger
#33Weird. Why does 4chan care about this?
I think that they don’t trust the maintainer. However 4chan raids like this are often run by third parties that can benefit from attributing this type of behavior to “anonymous” individuals. I wouldn’t be surprised if the people who bullied this individual had the goal of getting the original independent fork abandoned while also getting the new fork cancelled on the grounds of hate speech all along. I visit 4chan an…
So you're telling me that a bank is going on 4chan to start raids? Please, no CEO knows what a 4chan is.
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#34Does anyone have a tl;dr as to wtf is going on? How does something like this escalate to this level?
Name for a fork of audacity was polled, 4chan trolls/raiders voted for sneedacity[0][1] won, maintainer chose to use a different name instead, 4chan trolls were unhappy and escalated their efforts.
[0] https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/33 (now deleted)
Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger
#35There need to be harsh, harsh penalties for showing up uninvited to someone's house based on something that's happened or been said on the Internet. This is little kid shit and they either need to learn or have their toys taken away so they can't keep doing it.
Why does the internet make this magic? There's plenty of real world harrasment that goes on every single day. Usually relationship related. People get killed over it. Often after making a long series of calls to the police.
Besides, on this forum you'll have plenty of people arguing that abuse is just speech and it's wrong to ban people from organizing harassment on the internet. I don't agree, but that's the wellspring of this culture.
Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
It could very likely not be 4channers who show up at your house, but a SWAT team looking to take you out for holding someone hostage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting
Or more they may send pizza deliveries and subscribe you too every mailing list known to man. Don’t post your address. Use a PO BOX if you must.
Yeah, that's a good point. But I mean, on the other hand, free pizza.
Actually, this is a good example. There have been ~two high profile swatting incidents resulting in death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting#Injuries_or_deaths_du...
Dying in a car crash is a lot higher probability for most of us, but the question is whether publishing one's address would raise the probability significantly.
I'm not sure it would. And it's hard to think of what else people can do, other than, as you say, subscribe you to a bunch of fetish mailing lists that I'd probably get a kick out of anyway.
Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger
#37OK, so who knows of any completely anonymous alternatives to Github? Something blockchain based perhaps?
Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger
#38Am I the only one who would just … walk outside and talk to the 4channers who showed up? Probably offer them a cig and a meme. I’ve been thinking of tweeting my home address, so this is a relevant concern. What do you even do when someone comes to your house, other than listen to them? It could also be true that they did something a lot less friendly, like “bang on the windows and run away laughing.” That would be un…
that’s an incredibly bad idea, 4chan posters have actually assaulted people, people have died from swatting, some of these people are very unstable
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#39The kind of people who hang around 4chan is fucked up; I've always said that.
4chan is still a bit of a black box to me. I mean, I guess that's the point? I am pretty curious who these people are, mostly how old they are. I occasionally go rummage through it to see if it's still 4chan, and it always is. 4chan is one of the few places/things on the internet that makes me genuinely uncomfortable.
Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger
#40Am I the only one who would just … walk outside and talk to the 4channers who showed up? Probably offer them a cig and a meme. I’ve been thinking of tweeting my home address, so this is a relevant concern. What do you even do when someone comes to your house, other than listen to them? It could also be true that they did something a lot less friendly, like “bang on the windows and run away laughing.” That would be un…
I'm guessing you don't have kids