[slightwinder]

You get rape- and deaththreats for being interested in rocks and geology? How common is doxxing and people getting killed "by accident" in that community? Because as sad as it is, this are the lower levels of the gaming-world.

[Retric]

In terms of risk of death from other people, rocks and geology is likely vastly more risky due to economic incentives. Gaming gets bad publicity simply due to scale, but on average it’s extremely tame.

[thecupisblue]

It's the behaviour of any subculture at scale.

[slightwinder]

I doubt that. I know many subcultures and yes, they all have a level of toxity, but usually not to this extreme level. But to be fair, this level of harm is more focused to specific sub-subcultures in gaming. Probably "gaming" as a culture is to broad definend to really explain this things.