People have gotten people killed by making calls to the police that got SWAT to raid them over things as simple as “I thought it would be funny.”, never, ever, underestimate how stupid, petty, and cruel people on the internet can be.
Theirs a big reason why blizzard was forced to back off when they wanted to tie our real names to our account names and display those on the battlenet forums, and its not just because the trolls were mad they would be forced to have repercussions for their actions, it was a major safety concern.