User blog:Ahri-chan/Preserving Your Privacy

Hello, Wikians and newcomers. And welcome to my blog post.

This blog post is all about protecting, and preserving your own privacy in all parts of Wikia. As the Wikia has a very vast network of wikis, there will be threats to the privacy of our own personal information and most of them usually happen on the live Special:Chat. In this blog post, I will be tackling about the importance of protecting your personal information and maintaining your sense of privacy as this blog post will be able to..


 * provide awareness about online stalking and harassment
 * provide the users the preventive measures that would be useful when they find themselves in specific situations
 * educate them about the loopholes of the chat's private message/screenshot policies.

Now that the goals of this blog post are established, let's get to business and dive in to the grim parts of Wikia's chat function.

What is 'online stalking and harassment'?
Online stalking is a breach of Wikia's policies wherein a gatherer deliberately compiles and gathers personal information of an unsuspecting victim for the gatherer's personal gain. There are a couple of methods used to gather personal information, and the most common way of doing so is to ask the victim directly. There are also subtle means of gathering personal information like, finding all the people who know about the victim and questioning them one by one.

Harassments are a different issue compared to stalking, but the gatherer will strive to attain what he/she wants from you through the means of threats like the tracing of your internet protocol address so that 'he could pay you a visit' and all other sorts of cybercrime that includes the leakage of your personal information over the internet (doxxing), and some unorthodox methods like the unwanted delivery of pizzas right at your doorstep.