It is a tragedy and I feel sorry for him. This is, I think, the only appropriate comment.
There are many other appropriate comments. Perhaps it's the only appropriate comment you can think of.
19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv
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#132This 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.
1) They weren't egging him on, apparently, just letting him get on with it without interfering.
2) This is a very well known psychological effect called "diffusion of responsibility". It's the same effect that allows hundreds of people to walk by while someone is being beaten up in the street, when almost none of them would just ignore the event if they were alone or in a very small group with no one else around. It's neither surprising, nor "wrong" per se - it's just human nature.
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I downvoted this comment, thinking it was just a silly remark, but now I realize that it's a reference to the Brandon Vedas death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Vedas
Which doesn't make it any less disrespectful.
So what? Disrespect is at the heart of much great humour.
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memo to self: stop using ticketstumbler.com
user: tdavis created: 287 days ago karma: 911 it really disappoints me to see users with very high karma levels making such obscene, unnecessary and completely non-hacker-news-esque comments. you are hurting this community: please stop.
I think it's great that people in this community still feel they can comment without a chastity belt of righteousness strapped around their mouth.
Shame to see that going away thanks to people like you.
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#135Re: 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv
#136Pills? If you're going to live broadcast your own death, make it more interesting than watching paint dry. Sheesh.
I have since apologize for this stupid comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=371638 I didn't reply here because I doubt the down-vote wave has crested.
You shouldn't have apologised. Shame on you for giving in to the righteous hordes, from a moral standpoint. From a business standpoint, it may have seemed the only practical action, but in my mind you compromised your personal integrity by apologising to these people, and I'm sorry that you did.
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#137Re: 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv
#138Pills? If you're going to live broadcast your own death, make it more interesting than watching paint dry. Sheesh.
Honestly, I think your account should be revoked after that comment, unless you see it fit to properly apologize. Also, when you have your (and your partner's) business linked in your profile, you should think twice about what you say. Your concern about your reputation may be little, but I'm sure your livelihood is a little more important. I'm left questioning not only your maturity, but that of user fallentimes, al…
I think if you find this community offensive to your sense of maturity you should leave.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
This reminds me of something that happened to me after 9/11. In my teenage immaturity, I made a comment insinuating that America got what was coming to it. I'm not sure why I did that (the mind is good at rationalizing behavior after the fact, so I can't trust my own memories on the matter), but I think it was a reaction to the complete unanimous sorrow going on in the forum. Everybody thought that the attacks were a…
"America" did get what was coming to it. Its foreign policy of the last 50 years has been brutal.
However, the people in the towers weren't "America", they were people like you and me, and they were not guilty of "America"'s foreign policy any more than you and me are, and it is a tragedy that they ended up being the victims of this event.
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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…
how does this have anything to do with what you posted? your comment was insensitive, regardless of what justin.tv executives did or didn't do.
Please keep your sanctimonious righteousness at home.