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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

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Post by risky_opinions »

Not posting this under my main account for reasons, but 4chan harassed me for developing software too. They're a bunch of anonymous assholes that have nothing better to do. Their commentary was degrading and demoralizing.

They thankfully didn't find me in real life, but I pulled down all social media to avoid them.

Edit: I want to say one more thing. Sometimes people defend 4chan and say stuff like "that's just how they are", "they don't really mean it", or "you have to understand their community". But places like 4chan do real, measurable harm to people.

Just recently, Near/Byuu (SNES emulation) took their life after relentless doxxing and harassment. It wasn't 4chan, but these communities all harbor the same type of anonymity-enabled "for the lulz" harassment that brings out the worst in people.

Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Post by shadowgovt »

owlbynight wrote: post #10

There 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.

Step 1 is catching them, and it's the nature of this sort of attack that doing so is deceptively hard. This kind of harassment is basically a flash-mob.

Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Post by dathinab »

Ygg2 wrote: post #5
tomrod wrote: post #4

Weird. Why does 4chan care about this?

Same as always. For the lulz. Edit: Upon closer inspection, it seems cookiengineer had a vote for fork name. And Sneedacity won. After deleting that option 4chan went on a frenzy.

Yes, but also because someone instigated them to do so.

Maybe the person just did so out of a random thought of finding it funny, or maybe because of personal dislikes or maybe because of other reason.

Let's not forget people which go to extrems "for the lulz" tend also be easy to be used if you are lucky (i.e. just need to pitch the right idea to the right person in a "innocent" way, through it also comes at a considerable risk for you because you can never be sure who they end up harassing in the end).

Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Post by aaomidi »

owlbynight wrote: post #10

There 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.

Really hard to do that when the state has been behind incidents like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

One could argue that the FBI could be behind this too, for reasons we won't find out for another couple of decades.

Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Post by sillysaurusx »

Am 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 unsettling to experience, particularly at night.

This is a sad situation. Their Internet notoriety is the source of the problem, one way or another, and they felt like they couldn’t continue. I respect that; family is #1.

Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Post by DevKoala »

dathinab wrote: post #13
Ygg2 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same as always. For the lulz. Edit: Upon closer inspection, it seems cookiengineer had a vote for fork name. And Sneedacity won. After deleting that option 4chan went on a frenzy.

Yes, but also because someone instigated them to do so. Maybe the person just did so out of a random thought of finding it funny, or maybe because of personal dislikes or maybe because of other reason. Let's not forget people which go to extrems "for the lulz" tend also be easy to be used if you are lucky (i.e. just need to pitch the right idea to the right person in a "innocent" way, through it also comes at a consi…

Correct. The posters in 4chan are often manipulated by propaganda into these extremes behaviors. There is tons of threads in 4chan itself detailing how this happens.

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Post by willhinsa »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #17

Am 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…

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

Re: Audacity fork creator steps down. Claims his life is in danger

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Post by db48x »

ohazi wrote: post #3

I say this as someone who has used Audacity and Musescore for years, and who has been subscribed to Tantacrul's Youtube channel since before he got involved with Musescore because I thought his UI/UX rants were hilariously good. I've been trying to follow this story as closely as I could manage, but even I don't understand what the fuck is going on anymore.

They are hilariously good. No matter what else happens, those videos are worth watching.
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