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The tie continued past the point where the other end could not consent, and the address becomes physical. Twenty-two visits and a hundred and thirty-three doorbell rings is a documented conviction, not a complaint.

• The stalker statute1990 · A legal or documented caseAnti-stalking legislation in several jurisdictions, defining unwanted repeated contact as a criminal offence. The category's boundary written into statute, and the fact that it took legislation says what the rest of the site argues.

The Korean-language category with its own literature: a fan practice organised around surveillance, intrusion and material acquisition, distinguished from ordinary intensity by being a method rather than a feeling.

• The sasaeng2000 · A term or conceptAn attachment that has become fixed, repeated and physical - tracking whereabouts, intercepting flights, surveilling buildings. The Korean word for a practice that is not new but whose scale and criminality are, and it needed its own sub-category rather than a paragraph.
• Sasaeng culture2000 · A term or conceptOrganised, commercialised intrusion: schedules tracked, flight details bought, buildings surveilled. The systemic version of the previous entry - a practice with supply chains rather than individuals.

A crowd acting on a person it has decided something about. The collective case, where no individual is necessary for the harm and diffusion is the mechanism.

• Doxxing the person, not the character2005 · A mechanism or tacticThe jump from disliking a fictional portrayal to publishing a real person's address. The word had to be invented for a grievance that used to be settled by writing a letter, which is the shift in register the entry documents.
• The character is not the person2005 · A term or conceptThe pattern of locating and publishing a private address over a disliked fictional portrayal. The same mechanism as the doxxing entry, named as a pattern rather than an incident, which is what makes it a category.
• A mob is a parasocial event2011 · A term or conceptFraming online harassment as a mob, then asking who is on it. The question is the point: at what number does a pile-on stop being a metaphor and become a list of names.
• The ratio2015 · A mechanism or tacticA mass coordinated response in which the metric being weaponised is attention rather than truth. The metric becomes the weapon, and the pile-on is the delivery mechanism.
• Swatting2013 · A mechanism or tacticA false emergency report sent to a real address to provoke an armed police response, because of a grievance about a streamer. Armed enforcement summoned by an attachment, which is the worst version of the register.
• The pile-on2008 · A mechanism or tacticEnforcement by volume: a position is declared untenable and a pile of people makes it so. The outcome is a fact nobody chose, which is what makes it harm rather than argument.

A peer rather than an idol: a fandom member, a class, a community that cultivates the same attachment and then turns it on somebody in the room. The case the previous taxonomy could not file at all, because the object is not a public figure.

• Cancelling2017 · A term or conceptOrganised refusal to engage with a person, carried out by people who have never met them. Harm by consensus, where no individual is necessary for it to land.
• Fighting about a stranger in a reply section2005 · A mechanism or tacticFighting about a stranger in a reply section, in good faith. The object is a non-person who cannot be fought with, and the mechanism is the in-group. This is the cleanest instance of the register-as-category confusion the old taxonomy suffered from.
• The crowd injury2005 · An event or momentFans injured or killed attempting to get closer to a performer, in volume, repeatedly, for years. Not one person harming one other: a crowd, and the attachment as the mechanism.
• Fandom wars2012 · An event or momentOrganised conflict between fanbases with brigading, ratioing and coalition behaviour, conducted with the grammar of war. Two attachments turned on each other, which is the only new thing the contest register does.
• Gamergate2014 · An event or momentCoordinated harassment of women in games, disguised as a debate about whether harassment should be allowed. The disguise is the mechanism: the argument was conducted entirely in good faith about a principle, and the harm was real.
• Consent in one-sided attachment2020 · A term or conceptWhether a bond to somebody who does not know you exists can be a rights question. A question about the boundary of the group, and the group is the fandom.
• A glimpse mistaken for access2026 · An event or momentMillions of viewers take a relationship with an edited construct and treat it as a licence to investigate a real life. The mechanism is the audience, and the target is a person who never agreed to be constructed.
• Watching the replies2010 · A mechanism or tacticThe public performance of being at war with somebody, in public, for an audience, in a thread that never closes. The contest register performed as a spectacle, and the audience is the mechanism.