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this is just more rationalizing. to justify doxxing, which is itself essentially stalking (or worse) should be a quite high bar, which hasn't been crossed, even
by 2h 4y ago
this is just more rationalizing. to justify doxxing, which is itself essentially stalking (or worse) should be a quite high bar, which hasn't been crossed, even in this situation.
If the troll was threatening life or some other crime, then fine do what you need to do. but the person is just essentially being annoying, that is not grounds to doxx someone. if they do not have the skills to keep out harmful users, thats their own fault, they should implement a captcha or some other tactic.
- shadowgovt 4y agoA captcha doesn't keep out harassing users; they're human, after all. Changing the communications policy of the organization to only allow people a communications forum after they've been vetted might. That's a significant change that puts an OSS project at a severe disadvantage towards gathering support / interest. Also, it wouldn't even work in this situation; the actor in question proved willing to use every communications channel they could find to attack project volunteers.
- 2h 4y ago> A captcha doesn't keep out harassing users; they're human, after all. its not my job to teach people how to police their own forums. nor is it the judicial systems job.
- shadowgovt 4y agoIn this case, they're policing their own forums by, having exhausted other options, disclosing the bad actor's name and warning others of the bad actions.
- 2h 4y agoso they have resulted to crime, to combat a problem user?
- shadowgovt 4y agoDo you have proof they have resorted to crime? What crime? Be specific. You could perhaps suggest slander, incitement to violence, or invasion of privacy. High bar to satisfy a case for any of those three. Consider everything a private investigator could do IRL if one retained their services to track down an unknown individual; in general, none of those actions are considered criminal (though the spied-upon person would certainly wish the PI wasn't tailing them).
- 2h 4y ago[flagged]