"Doxing" in 2025

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I think we should find a word that works well used both as a noun and as a verb while still being short and simple. As funny as "unmasking" would be given who tries to use it, it doesn't fit well as a noun at all. "411" works alright as a noun and is beautifully simple, but it's weird as a verb. "I just 411'd Joshua Moon" just doesn't sit right.
 
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Doxing is nice because it's so short.
I think we should find a word that works well used both as a noun and as a verb while still being short and simple. As funny as "unmasking" would be given who tries to use it, it doesn't fit well as a noun at all. "411" works alright as a noun and is beautifully simple, but it might be weird as a verb. "I just 411'd Joshua Moon" just doesn't sit right.
Xpo maybe, for exposition, exposée, exposure (to light).
Someone's Xpo, dropping an Xpo, collecting an Xpo, Xposing.
 
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This reminds me, when my old (dead of TDS) forum needed a replacement term, they borrowed a funny literal translation from a foreign language.

If international kiwis know funny words, do share, they could be a good candidate for the next step on the euphemism treadmill.
 
I don't have any problems with banning doxing on the site entirely. It would help keep the site on the Clearnet, and I've never felt that having someones address and phone number at the top of the thread made anything much funnier.

Lolcows are funny because they do stupid things in real life and on the Internet. Having archives of the dumb shit some people say and do online across their various accounts is enough to keep me entertained. I don't need their address and phone number to keep laughing. I have zero need to know how to contact them.

The only thing different I can think of is when farmers are genuinely doing good work. Like when we post dox of people committing horrible crimes like in the zoosadist/MPB threads. Expose and dox them all. Sending their info to LEOs helps, but also having their info posted can help have enough public pressure to get authorities to actually do something.
 
I'm going with "Sunshining" or "Unmasking"
The former you can get the common people to use it if you spam it enough, it has a very innocuous feel to it. Put it in a few viral tiktok and most people will start to use it
For the latter, it'll be funny if the word backfire on LFJ
 
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Sure .....Let's call it civilian journalism.
And for legal purpose ...it personal opinion.
My opinion is that trannies, jeets..and rapists should commit sepuku.
 
In 2025 I need the community at large to stop using the word "doxing" to describe legal information gathering and switch to anything else.
I hate the Antichrist.

I'm going with "Sunshining" or "Unmasking"
The former you can get the common people to use it if you spam it enough, it has a very innocuous feel to it. Put it in a few viral tiktok and most people will start to use it
For the latter, it'll be funny if the word backfire on LFJ
Unmasking is an already thing amongst autists, just so you know
 
Considering what became of the term "dox" there is a possibility any potential replacements may face the same fate given enough time unfortunately.
This is exactly why this request is stupid. Playing along with redefining words is how got the gender and tranny bullshit mainstreamed in the first place. It will never stop, because it's the action they hate, not the word. Whatever we change it to will become the new boogeyman eventually.

Just for reference, changing pedo to minor attracted person didn't make people want to lynch sex offenders any less. It didn't change anything.

With that rant out of the way, I understand Null not wanting to rock the lawsuit boat.

Just call it outing since this whole thing is gay.
 
I don't know. I feel like "phonebooking" or "whitepaging", while they accurately convey what's going on and why it shouldn't be illegal (ie., all the information involved is obtainable through public sources already, so any effort to outlaw compiling it would be absurd), they're unique jargon that would be easy to throw on the euphemism treadmill. I prefer just using normal terms to describe what you're doing, since that's harder to turn into a scary phrase for a newspaper headline. "Deanonymizing" is probably my preferred term, because it conveys an intent that is legally innocent and morally neutral. You're just revealing who someone is, with publicly available data. There's no further intent to act on that knowledge and it can, in fact, serve other purposes (lolcows with their details fully published tend to be involved in behavior that employers, or even potential partners, deserve to know about; having information to compare makes identification a lot easier).
"Deanonymizing" sounds like extremely harassing behaviour. It evokes images of someone... doxing someone. Turning "phonebooking" into something counted as a dogwhistle would require manufacturing an explanation for why it is not just... phonebooking.
 
I think "discovering" might work. As it's impossible to eventually have legal ramifications and also has the "to remove cover" etymology associated with it. But I don't know if it flows well.
 
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