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Intentionally altering your site so that the automated scraper pastes personal identity all over the target site is an act of vigilantism, and feeds the wild West that the author laments. Hell, digging up identity and then using it against a person is vigilante in itself -- the content of the site modification is extremely passive aggressive. 4chan calls this "dropping dox".


I didn't even bother to look at the screenshot of the altered site. You're completely right. Edited.




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