Pills? If you're going to live broadcast your own death, make it more interesting than watching paint dry. Sheesh.
memo to self: stop using ticketstumbler.com
Such a shame, but I won't be using it either.
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
#72Pills? If you're going to live broadcast your own death, make it more interesting than watching paint dry. Sheesh.
Seriously people? I didn't expect this to be taken well by most here (in fact it was an experiment to see if there was a limit to down-voting), but some of you seem to be on a war path now. It doesn't really matter what the Justin.tv CEO said. He pasted some boiler plate because there's nothing more to be said; the deed had been done. What do you want? An apology for not finding the video? For not policing the Intern…
Just apologize for the comment, man. You're not going to change anyone's mind with a childish rant like this.
Re: 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv
#73Protip: This is not Justin.TV's fault. This is no ones fault but the adult's (he was over 18). It really is that simple - though you wouldn't know it from the media. America: where self-entitlement lives on and accountability goes to die.
That is true, but regardless, egging someone on who appears to be on the edge of suicide is simply inhuman.
Are you saying androids did this?
Re: 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv
#74Pills? If you're going to live broadcast your own death, make it more interesting than watching paint dry. Sheesh.
You're an idiot.
Re: 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv
#75Reason number 245 why Justin.tv won't be able to sell advertising.
Honestly. Justin.tv is not doing well. The service is shoddy, every channel is riddled with pedophiles and now this.
Re: 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd wager that everyone at Justin.tv is shocked and saddened. Too bad nobody knows that for sure.
Then again, no one knows if you are shocked and saddened either since all you've posted are complaints about the CEO's response. That's the line of reasoning you are taking, isn't it? I know the response isn't good PR, but I'm not sure why I or anyone else is supposed to be worried about what the CEO of Justin.tv thinks about the suicide. Maybe they could make it clear to their users to treat such incidents as seriou…
I think is that the CEO was asked for a response, and all he said was something about this being against terms of service. Nothing emotional whatsoever, which is understandable but a bit lame.
And I think we care because Justin.tv is a YCombinator site, and, more importantly, they all post here and they're good guys. (Bill in particular usually has got stuff worth saying. Maybe others and I don't realize it's them.) So people respond like they do because they know that J.tv people will read it.
Re: 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv
#77Pills? If you're going to live broadcast your own death, make it more interesting than watching paint dry. Sheesh.
Seriously people? I didn't expect this to be taken well by most here (in fact it was an experiment to see if there was a limit to down-voting), but some of you seem to be on a war path now. It doesn't really matter what the Justin.tv CEO said. He pasted some boiler plate because there's nothing more to be said; the deed had been done. What do you want? An apology for not finding the video? For not policing the Intern…
You think the people on here are dumb enough to believe that what you posted was an "experiment"? You're an asshole.
Re: 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv
#78Please remove this.
Re: 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv
#79Protip: This is not Justin.TV's fault. This is no ones fault but the adult's (he was over 18). It really is that simple - though you wouldn't know it from the media. America: where self-entitlement lives on and accountability goes to die.
Just because justin.tv may not have been at fault doesn't mean that they won't share in the blame.
Re: 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv
#80Protip: This is not Justin.TV's fault. This is no ones fault but the adult's (he was over 18). It really is that simple - though you wouldn't know it from the media. America: where self-entitlement lives on and accountability goes to die.
This seems like the last Seinfeld episode, where they were arrested under a Good Samaritan law for observing a crime but doing nothing to help the victim. If the account in this article is accurate, there were people watching the video feed for "hours" after he took the pills before calling the police. He might be alive if someone called earlier.
A similar thing happened in the Joel on Software Offtopic forum. Idiosyncratic, self described AI researcher Chris McKinstry kept talking about suicide, was mocked, then eventually took some pills and started a thread describing his final time on Earth in periodic posts. No video, and he didn't say where he was, but some people in the thread got close to tracking him down but not in time.
(I used to contribute there, but had stopped before this happened. I found out about it later and dug up the transcript in the archives when I read about it in Wired:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimyst...
"He posted the message on his blog and a slightly different version on a forum at Joel on Software, a popular geek hangout.")