[chrchang523]

"It’s not like he went to the greatest of lengths to hide his identity, Bay Area psychiatrists named Scott is a pretty small pool of people."

This is a misunderstanding. He was not trying to prevent "Scott Alexander" -> real name inferences. He was only trying to limit the rate of incidental inferences in the other direction; the primary effect of greatly increasing that rate is to harm his professional life.

[baddox]

That seems at best a very narrow sense of "doxxing." If his name is for all practical purposes already public, and he just does not want readers of a specific newspaper to see his name mentioned, does that really count as "doxxing?"

[jeremysalwen]

It's not for all practical purposes public. I'm very tech literate and google-literate, and I have tried multiple times to find his name, and was unable to.

[commandlinefan]

Um, I know his name but by accident. Why are you trying to track this guy down?

[jeremysalwen]

Pure curiosity. I tried it a few years ago, I think because he posted something about keeping his identity secret and I was curious how hard it was to find. Then again with these recent articles I did some basic searching.

[paulgb]

At that point, it sounds like this is essentially about maintaining SEO for his name rather than what I would consider "doxxing".

[mrkurt]

It shouldn't. It's so weird that the outrage just ... glosses over that.