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View submission: Let's talk content. AMA.
Doxxing is the process of compiling the information a user chooses to make available to reveal information they didn't intend to make available. Even if you're trying to make a point, you're doing exactly what that rule is intended to prevent. I would imagine that what's appropriate to post about a user would be best described as "information that they intended to share" so as to include "this guy said he worked here in this one comment" and to exclude "from going back through his comment history and looking up some details I found out he works here."
Comment by Cyberhwk at 17/07/2015 at 06:25 UTC
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And this point of view scares me. What you do in private should be private, what you do in public should be public. There SHOULD NOT be an expectation of privacy in the public sphere. I've yet to hear a single compelling argument that information that has been freely given should be off limits.
Comment by Sukrim at 17/07/2015 at 07:28 UTC
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All I did was click on the username, read through the last 2 weeks of comments (not all) and take a few examples.
Also I did not post very private stuff, more like "you said you go to university x in city y and are probably a fan of hockey team z, this is already quite unique compared to the 7 billion people out there".
There are sites out there that do much more: