"Doxing" in 2025

[Gingervitis]

'Tabloiding' someone seems like the most normie friendly word to use, as it conveys an immediately identifiable concept. You're just using a person as a form of gossip and discussion, as any other celebrity featured in the checkout line.

Idk. Tabloids have a trashy connotation to them. I prefer sunshining, like someone mentioned above us

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

I hate to have to ask this but where are you gathering this from, that do*ing has become an even-uglier word?

The term deanonymize already exists.

this. The English language is VAST. We can certainly put our one and a half brain cells together to find a better term

 

[Namekian George Floyd]

Sneeding.

 

[ASeabear8952]

In 2025 I need the community at large to stop using the word "doxing" to describe legal information gathering and switch to anything else. The following terms have been suggested, including both verbs which describe the act of looking something up, and the noun which describes a compilation of this information.

This is the same level as YouTube self-censorship (unalive, sewerslide, corn, etc.). I’m sorry but I thought free speech was one of the foundations of this site.

 

[Sithis]

I like "archiving" since that's basically what we are doing, archiving publicly available information about people who feel the need to post about themselves or do funny/stupid things.

 

[F-14 Tomcat]

Kiwifarms is now demanding I use its new pronouns, it's over.

 

[User names must be unique]

I can't remember how to spell doxxing correctly, i won't remember to use these phrases either.

 

[Breadbassket]

The term deanonymize already exists, though phonebooking has a nice ring to it.

Maybe that can be shortened to Deanoning or Deanoned?

 

[Whatevermancer]

I didn't notice the definition change, I just thought that others take it more seriously when you share someone's private information such as real name and home address.

The term deanonymize already exists, though phonebooking has a nice ring to it.

Yeah, that's the term we used to use on Russian imageboards. Or "deanon" for short.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

I'll probably keep using dox until something funnier is invented. Like how this place invented "troon" and now it's all I use.

 

[Scarthew]

We should use "un-aliving" that should fix any problems.

 

[Breadbassket]

"Sunshining" has a nice sound to it, it also can't really have its meaning confused for anything else like alternatives potentially can.

 

[Lieutenant Rasczak]

Maybe that can be shortened to Deanoning or Deanoned?

Deaning perhaps?

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

The use of a word, which now describes a crime, to describe things which are not criminal, is detrimental to our interests and long-term prospects.

I want to argue with this, and in a rational world I would, but things being what they are I kind of see it. Sucks, but I see it.

FWIW, something Dong Gone posted was the first time I had ever seen "unmasking" used.

Edit:
My thought at the time:

Phantom Of The Opera - Unmasking Scene (1925)

 

[Gangster Talk]

Phonebooking

I like "whitepaging"

A reminder that this information was once understood to be publicly accessible, and by using the word White it implies Goodness

Hard to believe back in the 80s killer robots could dox people at public phonebooths

 

[Lei Wulong's Left Leg]

De-anonymize is good, unmasking is ironically hilarious, but I propose "Fong" - Fonging, to Fong, Fonged - as an alternative.

 

[Cryogonal2]

“Sunshining” trannies is preferred. As we know, the natural enemy of the tranny is light.

In that context, "vamping" sounds better or maybe just "outing" in general.

 

[frozen_runner]

I'll probably keep using dox until something funnier is invented. Like how this place invented "troon" and now it's all I use.

"Troon" came from the SA forums.

 

[crinklefry]

I've been using the term unmasking recently, it seems self explanatory and I think I remember Nool saying it was reclaiming a tranny term and I love that

 

[Vecr]

I'm still not convinced word filters are as non-risky as people generally think. Filtering is plausibly an editorial action.

If a mod deletes a post, or edits it in a way that's very clear that that's what they did, sure, everyone already knows the status of those actions. Direct word filtering may be harder to argue for if someone shows up asking why what they typed didn't show up as they intended it.