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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 6884590" data-attributes="member: 16814">For what purpose are you letting others know?&nbsp; Serious question, as doxxing (doxxing: providing real world information about a poster, like addresses and real names) is a big point of contention on both sides of the internet harassment fence.&nbsp; Usually, the point of doxxing is to allow others to heap scorn upon the bad actor, but isn't that just more bad acting?&nbsp; Is harassment of harassers the proper response?&nbsp; I don't profess to know the answers, here.&nbsp; I have an immediate negative reaction to calls for exposure because that seems like a call for retribution, for abuse to be applied to the abusers.&nbsp; I don't think that's the right answer.&nbsp; However, anonymity is one of the legs of the internet @@@hole formula, and, if there were less anonymity, there'd be less @@@holes, presumably.&nbsp; But, let's say that you can identify someone, and they don't get a mountain of harassment aimed at them (best case).&nbsp; What's the point?&nbsp; That wouldn't prevent or even much dissuade the behavior; they can continue to say what they said before, if less anonymously.&nbsp; So, really, it's the implied understanding that, by exposing a jerk on the internet, you would be inviting people to publicly chastise and shame the jerk.&nbsp; Essentially, the intent is to call down a shame mob on the person and make it hellish for them to punish them and to make sure they don't do it anymore.&nbsp; I think that I have a moral problem with that.&nbsp; I've said it before, means matter, and if a behavior (harassment, in this case) is wrong in one direction it's wrong in the opposite direction.But, that leaves the behavior pretty much unchecked.&nbsp; There isn't a good answer, it seems, but I'm pretty sure that doxxing isn't even an okay answer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 6884590, member: 16814"] For what purpose are you letting others know? Serious question, as doxxing (doxxing: providing real world information about a poster, like addresses and real names) is a big point of contention on both sides of the internet harassment fence. Usually, the point of doxxing is to allow others to heap scorn upon the bad actor, but isn't that just more bad acting? Is harassment of harassers the proper response? I don't profess to know the answers, here. I have an immediate negative reaction to calls for exposure because that seems like a call for retribution, for abuse to be applied to the abusers. I don't think that's the right answer. However, anonymity is one of the legs of the internet @@@hole formula, and, if there were less anonymity, there'd be less @@@holes, presumably. But, let's say that you can identify someone, and they don't get a mountain of harassment aimed at them (best case). What's the point? That wouldn't prevent or even much dissuade the behavior; they can continue to say what they said before, if less anonymously. So, really, it's the implied understanding that, by exposing a jerk on the internet, you would be inviting people to publicly chastise and shame the jerk. Essentially, the intent is to call down a shame mob on the person and make it hellish for them to punish them and to make sure they don't do it anymore. I think that I have a moral problem with that. I've said it before, means matter, and if a behavior (harassment, in this case) is wrong in one direction it's wrong in the opposite direction. But, that leaves the behavior pretty much unchecked. There isn't a good answer, it seems, but I'm pretty sure that doxxing isn't even an okay answer. [/QUOTE]

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