Red lines
Some things people call trolling are not trolling.
Stalking, doxxing, swatting and organised harassment campaigns are a different category of act. Treating them as the far end of a spectrum that starts at flamebait is how serious harm gets minimised — and it is how people end up applying advice that was never written for their situation.
The advice on the rest of Don't Feed the Trolls does not apply to anything on this page.
Doxxing
Publishing someone's private identifying information — address, workplace, phone number, family — to expose them to harm from strangers.
Harassment campaigns
Sustained, organised targeting of one person by many, where the objective is not to win an argument but to make continuing unbearable.
Stalking
A pattern of unwanted attention, contact or monitoring by a specific person, sustained over time, that makes you afraid or distressed.
Also in this category
We have not written these pages yet. Rather than publish a placeholder on a subject like this, we would rather point you straight at the people who can help.
- Swatting — Provoking an armed emergency response to someone's home through a false report.
- Cyberstalking — Sustained monitoring and pursuit of a specific person across platforms and into their offline life.
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