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Salrite posted...

As much as I think it's creepy and douchy behavior, how can it be considered "doxxing" if the only way he could have gotten that information is from users openly posting it themselves? He just archived it for later use.

I'm not sure how much of it was explicitly posted and how much was him filling in blanks (like somebody mentioned their birthday in one topic and then in another topic mentioned their age, so he put those together to get their full date of birth and posted that), but either way I'd still call it doxxing to bring it all together in one place and share it without the person's permission. Sharing personal information gets considerably riskier the more you share at once, and being comfortable sharing each of those pieces of data in separate places over the course of months or even years (with the expectation that everyone involved will likely forget it shortly because they have little individual value) doesn't translate into being comfortable sharing it all in one consolidated file.

Either way, whether it strictly qualified as doxxing or not, it was a well-deserved banhammer for being a total creep.