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In reply to the discussion: The chilling effect of misogynistic trolls [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,319 posts)When you read about rape threats here, they're talking about the problems other sites and bloggers have - the ones described in the opening post in this thread, for example. No, DU does not get people posting rape threats; I've been a moderator before the jury system was started, I've been on the 'Malicious Intruder Removal Team', and I've been on hundreds of juries, and I don't think I've ever seen a rape threat. There is a troll that used to post graphic ways he wanted people to die, but he (or his group) appear not just on DU but on many sites (including right wing ones), and he is normally pre-emptively banned by a variety of methods before he ever gets a chance to send such a message (and, not that it's much comfort, the posts were aimed at both men and women, and weren't sexual in anyway).
I don't know which post you alerted on, but there can be an art to explaining an alert. If you said "I don't know, a troll?" in the alert, then people may have thought "if they don't know if they've been called a troll or not, then it must be harmless", and so voted to leave it.
When DUers complain about misogyny on DU, it's about people who say "women don't have any major problems these days in the USA", or things like that. It's nothing like the problems the OP describes.