how often do posters threaten violence against other posters here?

[reddread]

should I feel special?

[Xipe Totec]

1. Usually not more than once, depending on how fast MIRT gets them banned. nt

[shenmue]

2. Wanna have a water gun fight?

It is the Fourth, after all!

Do they still make those toy laser guns that go "graaaaaaack"?

[cyberswede]

3. Did you get a threatening DU Mail?

Or did it happen in a thread?

[delrem]

4. FYI I voted to hide the offending post,

and was one of two who mentioned that it should be sent to MIRT.

Having to read the post, for the jury duty, made me feel real icky.

[reddread]

6. thank you, sorry about the ick

pretty clear someone is even more maladjusted than myself.

[dipsydoodle]

5. You've been threatened ?

I recall from the past some here getting threating PMs from some nutjob or other and there invariably seemed to be excessive time delays in them being tombstoned at the time.

Stay well.

[reddread]

7. well, nothing that personally concerns me

but I do think it is safe to say that a poster like that may be quite sincere, and in my opinion presents
more of a threat to the message board community by behaving belligerently and advocating senseless violence.
Although I believe it is simply a mental problem, it certainly leaves the board looking worse than it should!

[The Wielding Truth]

8. I've been here since 2004 and I can't even remember reading any serious violent posts.

Some have been nasty and some carelessly insensitive, but I think the really bad ones are rare and dealt with almost immediately by the jury.

If you have been threatened or verbally attacked flag it and send it to the jury immediately and that poster will be tomb-stoned or at least that post will be hidden.

I have know DU to be a spirited yet friendly community.

[Drew Richards]

11. I guess you dont remember the mysogynist sociopath that was PMing people telling things

That I womt even utter in writing...he/she got tombstoned at least 3 times.

Now he was seriously frightening.

Anybody remember that poster?

[The Wielding Truth]

12. First I heard of this one. Isn't it just once and your done unless you can give good cause?

[hfojvt]

18. some people come back

under different names

some are even allowed to stay that way
dookus/monkeyfunk for example
oldleftielawyer/tangerine labamba for another

I doubt if "threatening PMer" was allowed to come back, but that they did anyway.

[uppityperson]

20. do you mean

"cut your throat" etc etc crap? If so, been banned several hundred times, a special buddy when I was on mirt

[Warren Stupidity]

9. calling skittles

[JVS]

10. I've seen it a few times.

[quinnox]

13. I've had a PM that was along the lines of those mentioned

Some crazy person sent me a PM threatening me once. They are known to have a long time troll that does this here at DU.

Sometimes, I have wondered if it might be a "sock" of a few duers around here who seem to not like my posts much.

[LittleBlue]

14. Getting threatened online is a rite of passage

If you haven't been threatened on a political discussion board, you're doing it wrong.

[reddread]

15. oh im long past that, ive been threatened by politicians

its not appropriate here.

[quinnox]

16. lol, either that, or you aren't making an impression

It is kind of funny that someone would get so bent out of shape over political opinions on a message board, that they would be pathetic enough to try and threaten someone over them.

I mean, how bad must their life be?

[reddread]

19. my feeling also

kind of feel bad for someone who cant deal with things productively.
on the other hand, when other people are endangered or threatened,
its a different thing altogether. zero tolerance.

[wyldwolf]

17. here, only twice (really, once that I felt the person was serious)

On a blog I kept from 2002 - 2007, many times.

[flvegan]

21. Just once against me, that I know of.

I alerted admin as is the right thing to do. Later, I laughed long and hard about it as I'd have broken his goofy fucking ass over my knee.