• Source: /r/subredditdrama
• Posted: Nov 1 2012
• Author: zanotam
• Topic: [meta] A brief summary of Doxtober with links to more specific summaries and a recap of the final days

Well, to start with, I think you’ll find today’s SMBC comic relevant to the following discussion.

And, a warning, I am not the greatest at this summarizing thing and the drama has been so deep and pervasive that I’m really just taking the highlights of the highlights of the highlights, so if someone can provide more details and help me fill this out, it would be nice, but I didn’t see any doxtober meta summaries yet, so I thought I could at least try to get the ball rolling. But seriously, this is the largest batch of drama I’ve ever seen and my first recap so if you think I missed something important, please let me know and I’ll add it.

TL;DR VA [/u/violentacrez] got dox’d by Adrien Chen and prodigious amounts of popcorn are produced in the aftermath from people reactions, reactions to other reactions, and, well, you get the point.

Major events:

Start: VA gets dox’d by Adrien Chen of Gawker. The article contains enough identifying information that VA’s employer gets harassed and lets him go and Anderson Cooper invites VA on to his show for a short spot. Reddit overflows with name calling and flame wars which still come up in threads weeks after the first major shots were fired.

Recap I

Recap II (Links to Reddit)

Recap III

Middle:

Well, this drama episode has put a lot of pressure on the admins (and the fact that some of the new admins got off on a bad first foot with some of reddit didn't help!) and so a new rule about not posting certain admin talk is introduced in SRD and singlehandedly brings a bit of life back to /r/ThePopcornStand as it is the semi-official source for 'forbidden' drama now.

— MillenniumFalc0n [M]: Alright, so I guess some explanation is required. We have been removing links to the leaked #modtalk log. This isn’t because we’re ashamed of the content or anything, but because we believe its proliferation would be harmful to the greater reddit community. The admins have made it clear that if we can’ t prevent leaks, they can’t speak frankly with us. The mod team believes that keeping lines of communication open between the admins and the moderators in situations like this is important, and hence we have decided to not allow it to be spread in this subreddit. Leaks in general are not banned, just leaks involving the admins. Please comment with any questions or concerns. If you disagree, please let us know why.

In the aftermath of the initial doxing the SRS mods (who many blamed for firing the first few shots of Doxtober) hatred for reddit is looked upon even more poorly than usual and they are denied access to the /r/modtalk sub and, as explained in one of the summaries, they are generally under fire from a lot of power users because of the VA doxing.

VA still posts on reddit though and since he lost his job, he now goes looking to reddit to see if anyone wants to hire him, posting his resume to multiple subreddits.

Interestingly, the creator of /r/beatingwomen was also dox’d, supposedly in addition to other moderators of that subreddit.

AnElegantPenis: Why did he threaten you? Do you happen to have something to do with SRS releasing information of few redditors from creepsquad?

mcon87: Should that matter? I’m disgusted that SRS released that information; I think it was reprehensible. However, raping someone has no justification. Zero. None. Neither does stalking someone. I don’t care what she did.

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END: There’s some minor drama about supposed doxing and shadowbanning in /r/internetama as the overall drama grows tepid

Finally, Lautrichienne, a member of the SRS Fempire (that’s what they call themselves now, right?) is dox’d. Drama, of course, ensues. All records of this are lost.

To cap everything off, the mods of SRD have to make an announcement to remind people that doxing is NOT a good thing.