Plagued Soyjak.Party / The Sharty - The altchan born from the ashes of /qa/; also a containment thread

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>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.
>Sunshining.
>Exposing.
>Receipts.
>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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pina coalada lover said:
/bp/ and /dem/ won the advent board contest, to the shock of no one.
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This event had to be made to piss off the users of the sharty literally no one wanted /bp/ and /dem/ yet Jannies let not one but both stay.
That along with the various other annoying changes they have been adding that literally no one wants (shit to rasin, hourly thread limits, having to use unique images in ops) just shows the staff has more fun fucking with the users of the sharty instead of improving it.
 
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