If someone threatens to kill you online, do you take it seriously?

[Dug]

Nope. Death threats are almost always made by some teenager who most likely lives states or countries away. I don't think his mum and dad will pay money to have him come kill me lol.

[zealo]

No.

If someone tries to threat me with violence, in most cases it lead to me starting to troll them and playing along.

[Acelius]

A guy once threatened to come over on his moped to kick my ass. Needless to say, I laughed.

[Neganova]

I never take them seriously, but I report them all the same.

[lazypeon100]

If you play LoL / DOTA, you get them on a daily basis. Well, dozen on a daily basis.

As far as LoL goes, I've only seen that happen normally between two people who are both toxic. Only a handful of times have I personally received such comments on there. But I normally don't talk when I play so *shrug*. I'm prolly just lucky.

OT: No. The only time I might take it seriously is if I know the person and I know they might be willing to carry out the threat. Otherwise, there's no reason for me to take it seriously.

[HAcoreRD]

context. also if i know them.

i should elaborate on this.

If someone on WoW says "You stupid idiot, I'm gonna f*cking kill you" I'd lol

If someone I knew, or messaged me on facebook and said it I'd be a little more worried, mostly because i have means of possibly finding who they are. Also for a threat to be treated as such I think it needs to be specific.

Example: "You are a piece of shit. I'm gonna smash your f*cking head in with a goddamn hammer tonight. Then we'll see who's laughing!"

Cops take the above more..."serious" because in that sentence there's a time frame (tonight) and a method (hammer + head)

[Skillslam]

salandrin is the jaylock of off-topic

[Kurioxan]

There should be a midterm, like:
"laugh it off but slightly increase vigilance"

[Senathor]

Never question the mental state of someone online. Ever.

That's stupid. Everything should be questioned in life. Always.

[Granda]

I voted no, but, the key here is appropriate discretion, for instance:"Dickfuck bitch stupid noob stop ganking me I'll fucking come to your house and kill you." I wouldn't take seriously, but if there was repeated harassment and attempt to contact outside of game through like e-mail or forum private messages or something like that then yes I would report it.

[whitefox]

Didn't you post this identical thread before?

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...are-you-afraid

You made me notice this was a salandrin thread.
On topic, no.