[Jayems]

Whats not sensational about it though? No matter what, it's going to be a sensational story. And sure, this may happen everywhere, but you'd never see a group of people standing around a guy with a gun to his mouth challenging him to pull the trigger out on the streets. You're right, the anonymity of the internet. But that's where the mod responsibility comes in to play. They just can't assume 'oh, this one is a hoax and that the guy won't go through with it.'

Granted, I can't see the thread, so I don't know how far it got before, if at all, mods got involved (it would be a likely assumption that nothing was done). You'd think there would be a zero tolerance for goading someone into taking their own life on their forums, whether the likelihood of them doing it is slim to none or not.

Although I guess it's not much different than school kids goading a classmate to do it, and then he does. But what I'm saying is that teachers wouldn't turn a blind eye.