What is dox'ing? (AskVoat)

submitted ago by WhiteRonin

Seriously, what is dox’ing?

Today a sub and a user got a global under the auspices of dox’ing. I saw her pictures. But guess what! I same them on her sub the first time, I just typed her name into bing ....

OMFG!!! I just dox’ed her.

Top hit! The first link on the first page.

I’m gonna link to it because the mind crime Nazis will say I dox’ed her too.

So, is posting a picture of public persona that puts up her Picture on Twitter that is reposted here a dox?

Let’s consider another case.

Ok, so let’s get into what a real dox is:

  1. Get a user from voat

  2. Type in their username

  3. Only alts pop up

  4. Do some more digging and get a name associate via another site.

  5. Pass that person’s real name and address onto another user(s).

This is a real dox.

Is making public of an alt of an alt a dox?

Personally I don’t think so.

Any other scenarios?

So, if posting pictures of a public twitter account that has the same alt as the one her on voat a global ban situation, what shall we do if a person were to track down a user and exposes their real name and address?

Is this a situation for global ban or not?

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RM-Goetbbels ago

Like Vote Manipulation: what ever they deem it to be that day and depending on who does it.

I was trying to Putt this shit behind me and MOVE THE FUCK ON!

WhiteRonin ago

Im asking since if we get global banned for posting Anderson cooper images if were here

RM-Goetbbels ago

Usually a dox is an unmasking of personal information not readily accessible.

I don't know who you really are but if somehow I learned your address, real name or identifying info and no one else could find this information.........and I then posted it......it's a dox.

If srayzie didn't want her picture out there she wouldn't have put it out and she wouldn't have tied her name to it.

Like me, I don't let that info out, ever. There are no facebook pics of me, there is no other RM-Goetbbels. I never use my real name. I just don't do it.

But like I originally posted, things are different now. New versions of the rules are being applied and treated differently depending on who does what. So, you can't really know.

WhiteRonin ago

I think along the same lines. If you use your alt name somewhere else and it pops in bing/google it’s relatively fair game.

If I have to piece together information and dig through several sources it crosses into the dox domain.

But maybe google/bing are now dox results ...

RM-Goetbbels ago

Idk. Whatever zyklon was doing to her probably wasn't right but I get the feeling she's an arrogant cunt who's started shit when she could've just let things be.

WhiteRonin ago

Nobody is clean, all are to blame to some extent.

RM-Goetbbels ago

Idk about that either. I bared my soul and admitted what I had done. I was banned because the rules changed for some of us.

Nobody is clean, all are to blame to some extent.

That sounds just like Putt-

I also won't pretend like the biggest complainers aren't the most egregious offenders. Let's not put on an innocent mask like we're perfect. This is Voat, and we all know what we've done. Truth. No one is innocent.

The difference is that Putt's account isn't banned.

WhiteRonin ago

Think Builders ;-)

thelma ago

Your writing style is likely something you cannot change so easily. The FBI uses handwriting analysis to ID people.

Just a FYI. And fun fact.

RM-Goetbbels ago

wth? Am I the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski now? David Koresh? Timothy McVeigh?

The FBI isn't interested in me. They'd be dumber than I think they are to even bother.