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Since when trying to dox people is called academic "research"?
by mutant_glofish 3y ago
Since when trying to dox people is called academic "research"?
- mcpackieh 3y agoThey call it "A study into toxicity". I call it gonzo research.
- mcpackieh 3y agoI think I wooshed some people with this comment. Gonzo journalism is when the journalist participates in the story. Gonzo research then is when the researcher participates in what they're studying. In this case, the researchers ostensibly researching toxicity are doxing people, which is toxic behavior. This makes them gonzo researchers.
- pbjtime 3y agoIntent matters. Both the police and kidnappers restrain people and lock them in rooms. Are they both criminals? Revealing people for their toxic behavior is in no way the same as toxic people doxxing others purely for what those other people believe.
- mcpackieh 3y agoBasically everybody who doxes thinks they have some ends that justify the means. That kind of mentality is toxic because every dirtbag uses it.
- psd1 3y agoThat's a logical fallacy. Breathing must be toxic because dirtbags breathe. AIUI, doxxing requires either publishing a subject's days or taking action against the subject. The authors of this paper day they have no intention of doing so. It's mild.
- olliej 3y agoSince when is it ok to create a forum that is not anonymous and then advertise it as an anonymous forum that is safe for whistleblowers?
- mutant_glofish 3y agoI don't think the aim of this "research" is helping to fix the security defects of EJMR.
- timmytokyo 3y agoThe aim is muckraking. The authors are shining light on widespread moral corruption among elites in the economics profession.
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- pseudo0 3y agoIt looks more like retaliation against anonymous whistleblowers: > EJMR has been used to expose multiple counts of plagiarism, corruption and serious professional misconduct that would not likely have been shared for fear of retaliation by their higher ups or colleagues. Indeed one of the co-authors of the paper had their own likely plagiarism exposed by anonymous EJMR users, calling into question the motivation for the study.
- olliej 3y agono, the research was something-something-humanities-economics-whatever. In doing the research they - random academics, not some nation state, or criminal organisation - were able to find that the posts were not anonymous, and extract the location of posters so it was not hard. They clearly informed the forum owner, because the forum owner fixed the issue (though notably did not tell anyone that their posts were not anonymous). Now new users of ejmr can hopefully rely on actual anonymity, and existing users can know that in principle their posts could be partially de-anonymized (the IP is the external one, most organizations being described have you behind some kind of NAT so full identification is at best questionable imo).