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19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv

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Re: 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv

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Post by goldsmith »

jedc wrote: post #19

This is horrible. Hopefully it gives the Justin.tv community a reality check. They were egging him on?!? As someone who volunteers on a suicide helpline, I'm amazed that people won't condemn that kind of behavior before it causes real harm.

I understand your sentiment, but if you think that this wouldn't occur in many communities that have a large base of users, you are off base. I don't just mean places like 4chan- have you ever read comments on Youtube videos?

Re: 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv

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Post by tsally »

jasonbentley wrote: post #18
goldsmith wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't really see how this would define how people see the company behind Justin.tv at all. You would have to find a pretty delusional person to claim that IRC had its reputation sullied by Brandon Vedas when he did the same thing a few years ago.

He's not talking about the incident. He's talking about the CEO's bad response, and the deafening silence since.

He >:-0.

And yes, I was not referring to the actual incident, but rather the response.

Re: 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv

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Post by dangrover »

A similar thing happened on a site that I co-founded: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-11-01-rampage-messa...

It was pretty horrific. We spent about a week being interviewed by the media and trying to limit the damage both to the site and to the perception of AS.

Re: 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv

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Post by fallentimes »

dangrover wrote: post #25

A similar thing happened on a site that I co-founded: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-11-01-rampage-messa... It was pretty horrific. We spent about a week being interviewed by the media and trying to limit the damage both to the site and to the perception of AS.

Just curious - did you contemplate not even responding to the media? Or were you pretty much forced to? What sort of long-term impact did it have on your site?

Re: 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv

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Post by mrtron »

fallentimes wrote: post #10

God the media is going to try to blame Justin.tv for this. While the CEO's statement was bad, he was probably caught off guard and didn't know what to say. At least I hope that's what happened.

The only thing worse than media bandwagoning issues is people attempting to predict how that process.
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