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.

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[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.