I'd ask anyone voting no to volunteer your doxes, because that's essentially what you're saying.
And I'd suggest anyone voting yes to be more careful with their personal information. Because some rule on this forum is not going to protect you much.
Exactly. As I've previously stated, there is no efficient way of preventing this. If someone is out to get you, they will find a way. This would require constant moderation of both users (as a person would probably created a lot of accounts) and trust (will leave negative feedback with DOX). DOX is just a summary of publicly available information.
If you do not want this information to be public, then I suggest that you do something about it.
I can't really repeat this this many times. Most doxes (including mine) include non public, non listed private information but under the guise that "how can we know" the admins won't action it. So to say a dox is just a collection of known information is false and misleading, because there is no way to moderate between public and private. So.... it can and will include private information.
Its not about "being careful", its that with the current moderation policy its both hypocritical, unusable and damaging to all.
Also, there are cases in which 'doxing' will get you in trouble (e.g. where it is considered trolling).
If someone doxing you as part of a proven extortion attempt doesn't get you in trouble, nothing will.
Exactly. A service of mine was exploited in the past without reason and my DOX was dumped on the forum. All of the information was obviously obtained by illicit means and I've brought it up with the staff on multiple occasions. A global mod replied with
Frankly, its not malicious, there is backstory in the thread itself, so if I potential employer found it and didn't like it, it also says that the guy's site was hacked, it doesn't speak ill against their character, not that that would really factor into whether it was removed or not.
I see no reason to remove it.
It didn't make any sense, service exploited, and then a DOX was dumped with information obtained from the single hacked account and the thread's removal was refused.
I could care less now, but there needs to be consistency with the moderation of these instances.
