TheLightPurges posted:

Maybe im just out of touch or old school but doxxing used to be posting some dudes name and phone number for random people to blow up with hate mail and pizza orders.

Doxxing never meant posting embarassing or horrendous poo poo people have posted on the internet.


Like the "doxx" was literally a link to someones blog and a business website wtfsaurus operated.


This website is called "Something Awful" because it was founded on scouring the internet for embarassing poo poo people post on the internet. I found "something awful".

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

The post included personally identifiable information. People are welcome to find it on their own, but don't post it here.

D_Smart posted:

That's the doxing part that shouldn't be allowed.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

I think it's pretty telling that Star Citizen is so devoid of content that this thread can spend a full day talking about how creepy that guy was on a livestream that had nothing to do with SC. Granted that this guy is one of the most visible ambassadors for the game, and has displayed a level of tolerance for this poo poo gameplay that most people would associate with a paid job, but if this phenomena wasn't less about personalities and was about gameplay we wouldn't care.

Of course the phenomena reflects the product.

hanales posted:

The question will probably come up (legally, not here) at some point whether a twitch streamer or youtuber is making themselves a "public figure", which changes the rules somewhat on what would be considered doxxing. Like, Tim Allen's wikipedia article details his cocaine trafficking arrest and imprisonment. I'm sure he'd rather most people didn't know about that.

It's an interesting question. I'm not sure how I feel about it in the case where people are making money on a name/public persona.

CrazyLoon posted:

Well, as someone else put it pretty well - by this point SC is less so a game or even a tech demo, but a confidence scam. The shitizens that are still in for it don't pledge on the merits of the gameplay or, at this point, even I would argue at the potential gameplay in the future to fulfill their nerd fantasy. If that were objectively the case, then in the span of a couple of months CIG would get torn to shreds by individual lawsuits out the rear end and go bankrupt within half a year most likely.

Instead, they pledge purely on the word of the personalities that regularly shill for the game (CIG and streamers such as WTFO) and their promises. So long as they have confidence in that, hilarious as it is, it staves off the abyss for the whole project and CIG.

It is even moreso telling that by this point their defense brigade barely cares anymore if you point out to them for a millionth time, just how retarded CIG's practices are for an alpha or how we were supposed to be long past the alpha stage by now based on their promises, but do something like this or uncovering Sandi's tickle fetish work and suddenly you get hilarious poo poo like #IStandWithSandi drawing them out of the woodworks, because god forbid that their precious trust in these scam artists gets dented and they actually consider that the thousands of dollars they 'invested' in CIG might be lost forever and for nothing.

So yea...the thread senses this and leans into it moreso than the umpteenth discussion of mechanics or procedures, really.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Fair point, and confidence scam is a perfect description.

Gradis posted:

this stuff about wtf is online and anyone can find it tbh. Its info that alleges he has done scummy things to people and lots of people commented on it. Its funny that many people had different names for him cos they allege he keeps changing his name but seemed sure it was the same guy.

why him? pff he was just a salty shill that amused some of us with how pissed off he would get about criticism at star citizen and whilst playing it for daily job hours getting more and more angry with the game. It was fun to see how long he would play it and he would melt down occasionally.

Dont forget he was travelled in to host on the official star citizen citizencon or some loving event-thing where they flew streamers in to host poo poo for hours. This is amidst all the stuff where we are asking do they pay people to shill to the pathetic audience of 1.6 million fans that had viewers in the very low 100s on twitch. Plus the popular ones offering ships every 30 mins. ye.

Then his love factory stuff appears on stream and he shits the bed banning and cutting all debate down and then appears as described groping, grabbing any booze and acting a total arse on que.

lol

Chin posted:

You seem very keen on defending WTFosaurus' actions and depicting a Twitch streamer with hundreds of people paying him $5/month as some nobody with 10 viewers.

Are you big in the PUA "industry"?

I.N.R.I posted:

sounds like its time for some fwiggin goon justice

Gradis posted:

call his parents. tell them they need to spank his bum.

Chin posted:

You seem very keen on defending WTFosaurus' actions and depicting a Twitch streamer with hundreds of people paying him $5/month as some nobody with 10 viewers.

Are you big in the PUA "industry"?

Sillybones posted:

No. There is no reason why them getting the scale wrong would be a major catastrophe. It'd be some work to fix it if it is code side and no real work to fix it art side.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Fair point, and confidence scam is a perfect description.

I.N.R.I posted:

sounds like its time for some fwiggin goon justice

Chalks posted:

"hey guys, check out this weird thing I found while going through my neighbours trash!"
"Erm... why were you going through your neighbours trash?"
"LOOK AT THIS WEIRD THING"
"I'm far more interested in why the hell you thought it was normal to..."
"OH MY GOD STOP DEFENDING HIM!"

Hav posted:

Is the trash 'google'?

You've gone weird man, just don't eat the soap.

iron buns posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUzQAYyG7qQ

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/5ll3ka/where_can_we_report_cheaters/

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/citizens/Zarnum

Tokamak posted:

Chalks posted:

"it's perfectly normal to research someone's real name and home address based because they have a different opinion about a video game than you"

There, now it's less cryptic.

WTFosaurus is an rear end in a top hat, we knew this before someone googled his personal details and found a bunch of stuff that confirms that he is indeed the rear end in a top hat we all knew he was. Seriously though who loving needed that additional info?

MeLKoR posted:

Greedy bastards now demand to be paid for their work? What is this world coming to?

Hav posted:

Is the trash 'google'?

You've gone weird man, just don't eat the soap.

MeLKoR posted:

Greedy bastards now demand to be paid for their work? What is this world coming to?

Hav posted:

I didn't ask you to clarify, I asked you if the 'trash' was google. If it was, then you have gently caress all point to make.

Is it normal for someone to look up someone else to harass them in real life? No, but it happened to me in 1997 when someone disagreed with a moderation I made on compuserve, so personally I think less of the overall 'gag' of concern trolling about doxxing. I'm engaging with you because you're better than that.

Was the 'doxxer' punished? Cool, lets move on to more entertaining and less loving annoying things like a broad interpretation of 'doxxing' that involves a name and loving google.