English boxer Curtis Woodhouse turns up on the doorstep of his Twitter troll

[seasidemike]

Brilliant:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/mar/12/english-boxer-curtis-woodhouse-twitter-troll



I put this under technology because it is related to twitter

 

[Jazzy]

I find this stupid and dangerous. What would have happened if the troll didn't apologize? Was Curtis going to knock on his door and risk getting shot?



The smarter thing to do would have been just to block this troll on Twitter.

 

[seasidemike]

I don't think so, it is a message to people that you may feel safe saying what you want on line...but you may be found anyway.

Too many on-line-warriors out there.

He was not so brave when he was tracked down

 

[Jazzy]

This is a sports figure that kids look up to and admire. What message is he sending to them by doing what he did? Risk getting hurt or killed by tracking down some troll that's bugging you?



Trolls do this for attention. Hence:

 

[Sinon]

I don't think so, it is a message to people that you may feel safe saying what you want on line...but you may be found anyway.

Too many on-line-warriors out there.

He was not so brave when he was tracked down

If I went to every asshole who pissed me off online's house I'd have traveled all over the world by now. What this boxer did was childish and stupid. I kind of wish he had hit the other guy though. Jail would probably teach him that there are worse people out there than people who call you a faggot on a social networking site. Not to mention he'd lose his ability to box for life, so yeah that'd be cool.

 

[seasidemike]

If I went to every asshole who pissed me off online's house I'd have traveled all over the world by now. What this boxer did was childish and stupid. I kind of wish he had hit the other guy though. Jail would probably teach him that there are worse people out there than people who call you a faggot on a social networking site. Not to mention he'd lose his ability to box for life, so yeah that'd be cool.

This was not a once off comment, this guy was regularly sending him these comments. I think he deserved a visit to be called out.

 

[Jazzy]

This was not a once off comment, this guy was regularly sending him these comments.

And Curtis kept replying, no?

 

[Sinon]

This was not a once off comment, this guy was regularly sending him these comments. I think he deserved a visit to be called out.

I was bombarded with messages on a popular flash games site by a group of people who thought it would be funny to stalk me, mimic me, and generally be cunts. It went on for weeks. I didn't rise to the bait because I'm not a childish dumbass like Curtis is.