magic9mushroom
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When I hear or see the word "doxxing", I think of either a) specific contact/identification details (name, address, phone number, photograph), or b) information gained through RL acquaintance with the person behind the pseudonym (for instance, responding to someone saying "I'm a teacher" with "I know this person in RL, he's not a teacher"). I'm pretty solidly against both of those, though I'm ashamed to admit that in the distant past (I'm talking 2007/2008, here) I've done b) a couple of times.
What I'm wondering about is the stuff that can be figured out from forum posts (i.e. not from an IP trace, RL methods, or even digging through other sites), and doesn't uniquely identify the person in question. Stuff like continental assignment based on timezone analysis (people don't generally post in the wee hours of the morning, if someone says they're tired it's probably late there, etc.), deductions from word choices and the names of bureaucracy ("the FBI", for instance, is a US term), and sex-specific figures of speech (if someone says they "wouldn't stick their dick in crazy", it's very likely that they do in fact possess a penis). This isn't the sort of thing that's particularly threatening to anonymity, a betrayal of confidence, or indeed necessarily indicative of malice, but it does technically qualify as doxxing under some broad definitions. So I'm wondering what position the QQ administration takes on paying attention to this stuff.
Inspired by a dream I had last night which went something like this:
Random QQer: <statement whose context depends on their location>
*one timezone check later*
m9m: You're from Europe, right? <response assuming Random QQer is European>
Mod: Doxxing. *permaban*
What I'm wondering about is the stuff that can be figured out from forum posts (i.e. not from an IP trace, RL methods, or even digging through other sites), and doesn't uniquely identify the person in question. Stuff like continental assignment based on timezone analysis (people don't generally post in the wee hours of the morning, if someone says they're tired it's probably late there, etc.), deductions from word choices and the names of bureaucracy ("the FBI", for instance, is a US term), and sex-specific figures of speech (if someone says they "wouldn't stick their dick in crazy", it's very likely that they do in fact possess a penis). This isn't the sort of thing that's particularly threatening to anonymity, a betrayal of confidence, or indeed necessarily indicative of malice, but it does technically qualify as doxxing under some broad definitions. So I'm wondering what position the QQ administration takes on paying attention to this stuff.
Inspired by a dream I had last night which went something like this:
Random QQer: <statement whose context depends on their location>
*one timezone check later*
m9m: You're from Europe, right? <response assuming Random QQer is European>
Mod: Doxxing. *permaban*