Why the abuse?

[magnatom]

I post videos on youtube of what happens when I cycle to and from work. I make comments about it and let people debate my cycling and the incidents. On occasion I have raised my voice (usually to be heard) and on occasion I have sworn (usually out of shock whilst asking why someone did something).

So what is it that I do that deserves comments such as this received today on youtube:

I want to find you and run you over

This is one of many, many comments that I receive like this on a nearly daily basis. Why? What do these people seek to gain? Do they think I will be scared by there, I'm a big man hidden by an anonymous log in, comments? I'm not! Or, are they just troubled souls with no life, and nothing better to do than spend their life telling the rest of the world how wrong it is?

Am I and others like me who post these incidents really such monsters that we deserve death threats? It really makes me wonder what it must be like for people like Madeleine McCann's parents when they had the media turning against them.


I certainly don't worry about iit (I get plenty of positive comments and messages), but it really is fascinating!

 

[Tynan]

goes with e territory Mags, you know that

people say silly things on the webby, they're probably good as gold in real life

 

[magnatom]

goes with e territory Mags, you know that

people say silly things on the webby, they're probably good as gold in real life

I think it is the anonymity that does it. You can get away it, so why not... Maybe it reveals peoples true colours. I'm not anonymous, so I have to be careful what I say and do. Maybe I should get a second log in and start abusing people. I beleive the simoncc login is available...

 

[magnatom]

Link?

On this video. It's one of many. The directness of it just made me think!

 

[MadoneRider1991]

tbh there is no reason to comment on anyones riding styles. everyone rides differently

 

[John Ponting]

General decline in civility in this country PLUS anoninimity (that's harder to type than mississippi) of logins. Magnatom, I've not researched at all and don't often look at your videos (nothing persinal, I just don't) but is your login your real name or are you semi anonimous ? Maybe rudeness is easier online anon to anon. I know I change my style a bit when I type a real name, especially if I have met the person involved.

 

[HJ]

Just another taxi driver...

 

[Eat MY Dust]

Hmm happened to me once (not a video just an argument on another forum) I posted my address for the guy to pop around. He never showed up. Pussy.

 

[Eat MY Dust]

http://www.youtube.com/user/KWB1690

Go to this guys chanel comments page. lol, says it all.

 

[MadoneRider1991]

yh it does lol

 

[goo_mason]

Google a few of the usernames; one of them seems to do nothing else but post abusive messages across a variety of forums. He made a tasteful comment on a breast cancer support site about Wendy Richards...

I suspect he's a bullied 13yr-old who gets his kicks at pretending to be an evil hard git online, thinking he's anonymous.

 

[MadoneRider1991]

what did he say on a breast cancer support site

 

[eldudino]

Jesus, I never get anything like this commuting through Stirling. Granted it's a smaller place but I take up a lot of road, especially when passing parked cars etc.

Can I suggest that it may just be the West coast disposition of these morons?!



Just been watching some of your youtube clips; pretty scary to be honest, the Weeg is full of moron drivers. I love the STV news, they certainly interviewed a broad cross-section of the understanding general public, and not just a bunch of toothless morons...

Favourite bit is you shouting the reg of the white van then following it up with "I've got a camera, you twat!". The more people see this sort of behaviour, hopefully the more will get done to stop it.

 

[purplepolly]

Granted it's a smaller place but I take up a lot of road, especially when passing parked cars etc.

Nail, head

I don't think it's anything to do with how much room we take up but with how congested the road is and how much the drivers are having to queue. They're far more patient on the same roads when there's less motorised vehicles about.

 

[swee'pea99]

Most of the abuse is down to nothing more or less than simple envy. These are people who are trapped in a metal box for hours on end every day, frustrated at every turn, and then along comes a cyclist - free!

What's not to hate?