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People can be pretty weird. I once received death threats over a technical blog post I’d written nearly a decade earlier, because the reader was upset that I ha
by phpnode 2y ago
People can be pretty weird. I once received death threats over a technical blog post I’d written nearly a decade earlier, because the reader was upset that I hadn’t updated it. (The date was clearly labelled at the top of the post)
- bowmessage 2y agoYeah, personally I take this as a known fact of life on the internet. I'm surprised the maintainer let it get to them so much. Like many popular creators today are learning, we all must "stop reading the comments", lest we never put anything out there ever again, for fear of critical feedback.
- pavel_lishin 2y ago> I'm surprised the maintainer let it get to them so much. There's always a last straw.
- bowmessage 2y agoJia Tan will be happy to take over the project.
- altairprime 2y agoConsider substituting 'criminal' (or 'felonious', etc) for "weird" in future tellings of this story. Death threats are generally regarded as a crime by police and judicial systems, and 'weird' tacitly excuses the crime committed upon you. A death threat is not in the same category as weird, and does not deserve a framing-pardon from us.
- lopatin 2y agoSounds like a first hand account of PHP driving people literally crazy
- phpnode 2y agoIt was about JavaScript!
- ksec 2y agoIt is really weird. I have had dozens of hateful messages or emails in the decades of online communication, but in terms of death threat both was somehow related to Intel. First one was in 2013/2014 when I said by the current trajectory TSMC is going to overtake Intel by 2020. Second was Intel losing the Smartphone Modem and Foundry battle about a year later, due to failure to forecast capacity. For a lot of these reasons I simply left most of the online hardware communities and forum. It is strange a lot of people think of brands in Tech as if they are religion. And internet in the 10s is really different to the 00s.