Amateur Investigations, OSINT & Vigilantism
Do not organise amateur investigations into members, search for their relatives or employers, correlate usernames across platforms, purchase leaked data, run facial recognition, or compile dossiers to expose or pressure them.
Publicly available information can still become invasive when aggregated, republished, or used outside its expected context. A suspicion, rumour, or rule report does not authorise surveillance.
Provide directly relevant evidence privately to staff or lawful authorities. Do not contact a suspected person’s family, school, workplace, clients, or local community to force consequences.
Staff may review limited public evidence where necessary for server safety, but should document purpose, minimise collection, protect sources, and avoid speculative identity matching.