Question - Might Stir Some Conversation
 

This is something I've been wondering about lately. Not just forum related, but the question still applies (especially considering some events in HDC's past)

Let's say one of the regulars here posted a thread - for sake of example, let's say I posted the thread - titled "I Just Killed Someone", and in the thread they (I) posted full details and some kind of photographic evidence.

How would you react? Would you take it seriously? Would you pass it off as a hoax? Would you get in touch with the FBI (or CSIS in my case)? Would you save the images?

Would it effect whether or not you decided to continue coming here, or using the internet? What if you happened to see a report on the news the next day, proving that some kid in eastern Canada just chopped up some guy and posted about it on a forum. How would that change things?

Now I don't want anyone worrying or anything - I have not (to my knowledge) killed anyone. Nor do I intend to. This just stems from a conversation I was having with a buddy of mine, and I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the matter.

I wouldn't be too concerned. None of our regulars are like that anyway, no matter how twisted and screwed up some of us try to seem... If there was a member who did that, they probably wouldn't be around that long.

Or so you think...

Come on, Posh. Entertain the hypothetical.

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Honestly, if someone posted an "I Killed Someone" thread I would believe it was a joke (especially since a lot of our members are creative and love homegrown filmmaking and photoshop). If on the NEXT day, however, it was revealed that it wasn't a joke at all... I would take it as a good ice breaker opportunity and way to freak people out.

"So I'm really into Horror and was actually part of an online forum where Shotgun Sammy was a regular... Yes, that Shotgun Sammy."

I would also continue coming back.

i'd turn you in in a minute

Would you get in touch with the FBI



there ya go


and I would ask for Scully

I would message the person in question and ask if they were serious, making it clear that if they were I would be contacting the authorities...although, even if they said they weren't, I probably would anyway.
Any further kill in this regard would be another blow against horror fans and how people view them - I'd want to put a stop to that, and well, subsequent life lost thereafter.

If it turns out they were joking, they deserve the lesson they're about to get taught, way I figure it.

I'd probably do this. Asshatery is par for the course on message boards, but some shit crosses the line. If someone pulled a stunt like this then got a shitload of heat, chalk it up as "had it coming."

I would only turn them in if it were 'certain' regulars:D

^Nail on the head there buddy^. On another forum we found out we had a murderer among us after he was arrested. He'd killed 2 people that he knew and was caught pretty much right away. He didn't post anything about it, but it's still really weird to find out you've just talked shit to a man capable of murder.

If the "I just killed someone" thread were not a hoax, it'd probably be a cry for help. Why anounce to the masses what could put you in prison? However I don't think everyone who reads it needs to get on the phone with the FBI(where do you get that number anyway?), but definetly report it to an online authority and let them contact whoever.

isn't this actually a bit like 'the incident of which we do not speak' that happened several years back that brought so much attention to HDC (before even my time but i recall the stories)