Why does it matter if it’s credible or not? There’s simply no justification for death threats, at all.

I work at a school and one of the most common things students say when they are caught doing something they shouldnt be doing or saying is “I was just joking.” What these students don’t understand, much like people that make threats on the internet, is that in the REAL WORLD stuff like that doesn’t matter. If you…

It’s disturbingly easy to find out a person’s home and work address. Anyone with a clean record can go to Wal-Mart and have a gun and ammunition in less than an hour. The news is clotted with stories about people being murdered over trivial things everyday. Now, several complete strangers have all said that they are…

How do you tell the difference between Bossman222 - who is clearly all talk - and Bossman223 who gets the SWAT team out to your house only to have their body cams mysteriously fail right before you “went for your belt” and took 25 rounds to the chest?

The problem is, it is often impossible to determine which anonymous threats are credible and which are not. If one out of one thousand anonymous threats are credible, then 99.9% of them are not credible. The problem is, unless you can track down the person making the threat and investigate it, there is absolutely no…

“I guess I’m just use to hearing shit from internet people, and it’s just blah blah blah to me.”

The attitude seems to be that “whatever I say is my right and my business, and if it offends you, that’s your problem and you’re just weak.” Yet they are oblivious to the fact that other people have feelings and rights, including the right to say, “that offends me.” And the greatest irony is that these tend to be the…

Can you imagine what it would be like if that happened in real life? “What do you mean you don’t have a pumpkin spice latte? I’m coming by to your house later to fuck you up! I hope your entire family dies and I’m going to make that happen!”

“I’m just use to hearing shit from Internet people...”

Uhh...they are all credible? You’ve been on the receiving end where they know your gaming handle and that’s likely it. Try having it done to you where they know your full legal name and where you are. Because I have! and it’s actively terrifying. You can’t differentiate between a pissbaby and a pyschopath - they sound…

Please differentiate “an actual credible real threat” made via social media and one we shouldn’t pay attention to. This is the problem, because you don’t know who the person is, you don’t have context, how the hell do you tell the randomness of people with anonymity gone wild with a credible threat in such a…

Yeah but when you get so many all it takes is one crazy person to make it a reality. A threat on your life isn’t funny or something to be taken lightly. Please try to understand that.

I worked for a game studio for an online game. 3 guys that got banned had showed up to our studio, in trench coats. They started asking where the GM offices were, saying they got banned and needed to talk to GM so-and-so. Security for the building showed up and they ran. We never saw a gun, but does it matter? Another…

That’s the thing about threats, we have no idea which ones are credible until someone follows through. By then of course it’s too late to do anything about it. All threats must be taken at face value.

I’m with you 100% Jason. Credibility has no relevance here. The fact that you’re getting varying degrees of threats for simply reporting an impending delay (later confirmed) is absolutely insane.

It would be interesting to understand the demographics associated with these threats. How many are teenagers? 20 - 30? 30+?

It…

Getting death threats is unpleasant regardless of whether the person actually has any intention of carrying them out.

Really not the point, is it?

You dummy. Good trolling...you almost had me going.

Yes, they want a small market team to win rather than the 73 win team in a major market.....

The conspiracy-riddled mind is a sad thing to see.