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Like Yaya, I have also been playing with Joe for over 20 years. I had no idea that people still played this game until someone told me that Joe still played. I, like many others, came back to play with Joe only to find out that he was banned. Now as far as the insults go, sure. Whatever he he said was probably no worse than what he's said to me in the past but we live in a new politically correct world and Joe can learn to be more careful about insulting people during arguments.

But apparently he was banned for using someone's name which I find confusing. Doxxing is about making private personal information public. Generally our names are meant to be shared. Do Starbucks employees doxx their customers when they call out their name to pick up their drink order? If I go to Starbucks and give them Joe's name then am I doxxing Joe?

Joe retrieved the name from a public chat related to AA. So the name was already provided and it was already public which means there cannot be a expectation of privacy. And can you publicly provide something that is already publicly available? Perhaps, but it's debatable.

What isn't debatable is that using the exact definition of that Wikipedia quote means that it is doxxing to introduce a friend to other people at a party without getting their consent first.

But I think it is clear that neither situation falls under the intended meaning of doxxing.

I also just want to be clear here. We don't care if it technically meets the definition of doxxing or not, it's very fucked up all the same and we're punishing the action of what he did, completely independent of any definition.