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[RealBigG]

As you guys have seen purk was banned for “doxxing” and I feel with no bias that these doxxing rules make no sense. First the situation of purk happened because he posted a picture of redbugatti that was in a public discord (Noobville). He took that picture and posted in ascended with no knowing that you guys consider this doxxing. I’ve been on a ton of servers where this wouldn’t be considered doxxing as they showed their own face. Redbugatti put it in a public discord and in the “face reveal” channel. In my opinion this really isn’t doxxing. In my thoughts doxxing is revealing a persons location or face without the person giving them that information. Purk didn’t go out of his way to dox redbugatti. He simply saw his face in a “public” discord and put it in another “public” discord.
Now onto changing the rules. Like I said you should ban the people that purposely go out of their way to leak other peoples information and release it to other players on loka. But I don’t feel you posting your face to a discord with a thousand people in it and not expecting someone to bring it to another discord is doxxing. You made your face public so it should be your fault with doing that. The only way I see it being harmful is using the persons face to insult them but that was not done by purk. These doxxing rules really need change as it doesn’t make sense. I’m not making this post just to unban purk. I’m also doing it so other people don’t get punished for doing the same thing in a non harmful way.

(I suck at proof reading don’t bully if I messed something up)

 

[doota]

if Bugatti said that picture isn’t him why is purk banned for sending a picture of bugatti

 

[Cryptite]

Our rules are clear on doxxing. There is no gray area on this because while you may choose to share info about yourself - especially pictures - in a public area, this does not mean you give full consent for people to share that around. So, I want to be clear and quite blunt - do NOT share (or rather, STOP sharing) pictures of yourself on the internet. It is plainly a dumb thing to do and people will abuse it.

The reason why this is black and white is because we have absolutely zero desire to try to evaluate every doxxing incident based on whether it was "okay or not"; whether a picture of a player was shared in private, among friends, in a group chat, or on a public discord. Knowing this, if there's any takeaway from my post, is that:

1: Stop posting pics of yourself in #face-reveal channels, or on the internet unless it is absolutely among people you trust.
2: Just because someone does, this does not suddenly grant you the freedom to share that anywhere you like. As was pointed out in this thread, doxxing is sharing identifiable information. This means we do not care how or why it was obtained.

So while we try to judge circumstances on an individual bases for most of our rules, with doxxing and bullying we are black and white. So basically, stop it.