"Doxing" in 2025

[Orange Rhymer]

How about 'D-Slur' ?

Seems to follow a popular social media trend

 

[dick brain]

Then adopt an old word.

Okay.

How about "journalism"?

 

[Desire]

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

and I have to go edit the lolcow threads I've fucking made.

 

[Smokingpoop]

I prefer the term "Information Rape"

 

[Desire]

I prefer the term "Information Rape"

How about trackpage/tracking

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Papers?
Kinda fits with the game 'Papers Please' ...

 

[dick brain]

How about 'D-Slur' ?

Seems to follow a popular social media trend

No that's my rap name

 

[skunt]

has anyone suggested "niggering" yet

you just got niggered on kiwifarms bro

 

[The Gene Genie]

I liked the harvest one. I think it fits the site's theme.

 

[Rungle]

Just "Researching" would suffice.
Nothing pretentious, Nothing overly edgy, Just saying how it is..

 

[Orange Rhymer]

I think we need a poll now.

 

[Dyn]

The amount of autistics in this thread who think we need to band together to choose an official replacement word is unreal, there's like two dozen things you can call it and they're literally all fine for communicating what you mean without being the name of an actionable criminal offence. Just say whatever.

 

[CallmeCicada]

Then adopt an old word.

"Googled"

 

[murgatroid]

I support the change in nomenclature. If it will help make things better for the site and the perception out there I'm all for it.

I will try to use public information, research and documentation in my forum speech but I suck at dox so I probably won't be using it much anyway.

 

[dick brain]

"Googled"

I do like this a lot for how demystifying it is.
Googling. Getting Googled.

"How could they possibly have found this information?"
"They Googled him."

Germany seeks to pass bill banning Googling.

Edit: or "noticing", for that matter.

 

[Coberald]

I once again suggest we use blacking. No one will think we're an evil hacker site when we talk about Nick Fuentes getting Blacked.

 

[Vecr]

The amount of autistics in this thread who think we need to band together to choose an official replacement word is unreal, there's like two dozen things you can call it and they're literally all fine for communicating what you mean without being the name of an actionable criminal offence. Just say whatever.

Is Joxxing too close to the original to work?

Edit: or "noticing", for that matter.

"Noticing" already means something else.

 

[Wyzzerd]

Decursing
Second sight
Dispelling
Demistifying
Decloaking
Farsight


And my favorite,
Wizarding

 

[Dumbledore's Onlyfans]

Why not use any or all these euphemisms until one catches hold? We can't just vote on a new meme, it needs to grow organically.

Additionally, do we really need just one euphemism or meme? As long as others understand what you're talking about, a lot of these are mostly interchangeable for this purpose, such as "documenting" and "archiving".

As for a word filter, if such becomes necessary, I suggest "PROVIDED LEGAL CONTENT ABOUT". Then a sentence that once read "I doxed Jane Doe on Instagram" would read "I PROVIDED LEGAL CONTENT ABOUT Jane Doe on Instagram". Dox could be "LEGAL CONTENT". The sentence "Here is Jane Doe's dox from Instagram" would read, "Here is Jane Doe's LEGAL CONTENT from Instagram".

Comedy option: filter all forms of "Dox" to "DICKS". Here is Jane Doe's DICKS. Jane Doe got DICKS on Instagram. This is the one I like.

 

[GuntOfTheLitter]

Infodumping is the most boring but also least gay sounding. I say we use all of them arbitrarily, preferably multiple ones in the same OP.