Ah. Legomymalfoy has posted.

[icarus]

Legomymalfoy has posted.

Apparently the death threat some (but not all) of the candidates were warned about was aimed at her, which I thought might be the case. (And I was hearing hints behind locked posts from her friends that legomymalfoy was absent for good reasons that they couldn't talk about, candidates were asked not to talk about the threats, this was not hard to put together.) If you're going to send a death threat, you'd usually -- although not always -- send it to one of the main contenders.

My feeling about this? ithiliana says it better: Clusterfuck 2008: The Race for the LJ AB.

Comments

[tonksnymphadora.livejournal.com]

sorry, that is my gaming journal. Is having special night :)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

No problem, I figured it was you. :D

For a threat to be credible, does the person making the threat need to indicate they know where you are so they can carry it out?

It would be hard for someone to make a credible death threat against me over the internet in that case. There are exactly five people on my f-list who've ever met me in person--and one of them's the boyfriend. About seven people on my f-list know my real name (and one of them's the boyfriend). Only the boyfriend has my address, although with a name, one can get an address if you work hard enough.

Other people are more open with their personal information than me, and go to cons and whatnot, or are friendly.

[tonksnymphadora.livejournal.com]

Who knows what happened but in these days, any sort of violent threat gets the attention of police fast, as it should be.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Ah. So it could be the wording and apparent aggressive intent.

[tonksnymphadora.livejournal.com]

Being the daughter of a PI, it really isn't that hard to find out stuff about people. Eerily so. But words have a lot of power.

[elf]

I would not be hard to find. While I don't think my address is anywhere in my LJ, I regularly mention the city live in, the city I work in, names of places I shop, and so on. And I don't separate my fannish/pagan/LJ identity from my IRL one; it wouldn't be hard, with a bit of googling, to get my address.

And I'm relatively anti-social and somewhat paranoid. (The main reason I'm not more careful about life details? I live in a ghetto-ish area of Oakland; I fear no internet stalkers. If they can pick their way through the broken glass on the sidewalk and sidestep the used needles in the gutters, they're welcome to try to visit. Our home defenses are built for occasional neighborhood riots; I'm not worried about out-of-towners with a grudge.)

People who go to cons, who post reports about them, who manage fests and whatnot? Harder to hide. And a credible threat wouldn't necessarily mean knowing the person's address--a photo, and the knowledge of which Starbuck's they get coffee at, would be enough.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Or maybe they don't need to know where you are for it to be credible. I don't know. What does that mean?