Re:In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
by SpaceCadetJones on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @03:54PM
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On a daily basis I see people making the most idiotic and insensitive comments backed by sophomoric reasoning, and it really hurts my hope. At the same time, I notice if I look for the good I seem to find a lot more, and it comes from typically much more intelligent/rational sounding people. Keep pushing forward the good. The kind of people who make it far in life will notice and follow, while the hateful juveniles will continue to fade out.
It's /pol/.
/pol/ was created as a containment zone for idiots because they were too much of a hassle on /b/ (the board where literally anything goes.). The only people taking /pol/ seriously on 4chan are the /pol/acks themselves.
It's called politically incorrect on 4chan?!?! What did you expect?
Re:In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
by punchingwater on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @03:55PM
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> (quote from imurdock's twitter) Maybe my suicide at this, you now, a successful business man, not a NIGGER, will finally bring some attention to this very serious issue.
This sounds a lot more like 4chan trolls than it does one of the leading lights of OSS. I know people are trying not to speculate, but I wouldn't be surprised if his account was hacked. In any case, I think you can honor they memory of Ian and still try to find out what happened to him.
while googling, I found this page:
(warning, it's a 4chan thread, overflowing with hateful comments) https://archive.is/2Cdj1
In there, horrible people are inviting other horrible people to go on twitter and troll (i.e. harass) Ian.
If you're close to taking your own life, you want to be close to your loved ones, and the last thing you want is to get random people calling you names.
Really crushes my faith in humanity.
We need more people like Ian.