"Doxing" in 2025

ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳ said:
There's probably a software solution to streamline the management of PII and make it obvious to lurkers that inciting harassment is a bannable offense. KF is an interesting place: part wiki, forum, media gallery, and PII repository. I think the conventional bulletin board format is limiting.
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It's not a bulletin board, it's a forum. The in-order long term threads are the absolute best part of the site. I don't want another Reddit or (micro) blogging platform.
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
Unmasking makes it sound like we're up too some Scooby Doo tier shenanigans and we should use it more.
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Is that what we want though?
Jimmy Dean Bowl said:
"Anyone got his bin? Yeah I binned him last week, didn't you see?"
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I think being associated with the doxbin is the opposite of what we want.
 
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Null said:
  • Phonebooking.
  • Unmasking. *
  • Deanonymize / Deanon
  • Infodump / Infodumping
  • Sunshining.
  • Exposing.
  • Receipts.
  • Deets. * per shawnphase
  • 411.
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My personal opinion on these options:

  • Phonebooking, sunshining, 411 are a bit too obscure.
  • Unmasking and exposing are too vague.
  • Deets and receipts are unwieldy, because ideally you want a verb and not just a noun.
  • Deanonymizing is a bit of a mouthful.
  • I think 'infodumping' is a good choice because it's immediately clear to everyone what this means. You're taking some information and dumping it online for people to see. It's straightforward and obvious.
 
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I like phonebooking, feels much more Hackers (1995).


That being said, isn't doxxing when two guys make their peepees touch and one of them tries to eat the other?
 
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Vecr said:
I think being associated with the doxbin is the opposite of what we want.
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That's a good point.
I was only considering easy aide memoirs as opposed to anything else.
I'll put down the crack pipe.
 
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Ain't companies gathering private data just "Data collecting" or "mining". We should start selling it for that I guess.
 
Use doxing. Fags on X use the double x of doxxing, which means the former of targeted harassment.

This is the difference between fagot (a bundle of sticks) and faggot (what journalists are).
 
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I personally agree with using the term "infodumping". It is concise and provides all necessary information.
"Pinpointing" would be my own suggestion otherwise.
 
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Null said:
There are two definitions of doxing (alt. doxxing):

a. Form of harassment in which personal information is used to intimidate, threaten, or distress others.
b. Searching / archiving public information and reposting it.

The Kiwi Farms has always had rules against contacting people. We've always had rules against threatening or extorting people. We've always had rules against encouraging other people to do those things ("someone should...").

In the last year especially, the word doxing has become popularly realigned from the second definition (which originated online in the 2000s) to the first (which was popularized by journos).

The law has extended harassment definitions in many jurisdictions to include online harassment which utilizes personal information. This is in the same way "cyberbullying" is a crime, but "cyberbullying" does not mean any form of online critique: it specifically refers to students in highschool or college harassing their peers online in such a way to intimidate them from going to school. Doxing has become criminalized, but as an extension of already criminal behavior under the first definition, usually applied to people who already know each other in real life.

The fact that this subculture invented the term and abides within the law is irrelevant to what the average person now thinks of when they hear "doxing". That we are 'in the right' does not matter. The use of a word, which now describes a crime, to describe things which are not criminal, is detrimental to our interests and long-term prospects.

In 2025 I need the community at large to stop using the word "doxing" to describe legal information gathering and switch to anything else. The following terms have been suggested, including both verbs which describe the act of looking something up, and the noun which describes a compilation of this information.
  • Phonebooking.
  • Unmasking. *
  • Deanonymize / Deanon
  • Infodump / Infodumping
  • Sunshining.
  • Exposing.
  • Receipts.
  • Deets. * per shawnphase
  • 411.
I'm not going to force any specific transfer, so you can pick whichever term you'd like and feels works best. Language is malleable and getting people to change at all is going to be hard enough.
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Why do you sound like a jew though
 
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Vecr said:
It's not a bulletin board, it's a forum. The in-order long term threads are the absolute best part of the site. I don't want another Reddit or (micro) blogging platform.
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I guess message board was the correct term. I wouldn't want the core format to change either, I just think there's a ton of creative potential to improve it based on the site's unique nature. I won't play backseat developer. It's clear that Null wants to soften the site's reputation as a "doxxing forum" for practical reasons and I agree, with the caveat that simply using a new word is probably insufficient.
 
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How about "shaming"?

Pedophile-shaming.
Groomer-shaming.
"Litigious sex pest"-shaming.

It conveys a simple message:
People online are pointing and laughing, here's what the retard has done to warrant that reaction.
 
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Null said:
In 2025 I need the community at large to stop using the word "doxing" to describe legal information gathering and switch to anything else. The following terms have been suggested, including both verbs which describe the act of looking something up, and the noun which describes a compilation of this information.
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Just call it "research," since that's what it is most of the time.
 
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