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title: "Mass Bullying (Dogpiling) & Direct Message Harassment"
description: "Neutralizing mob swarming, organized pile-ons, and harassment migrating to private DMs to evade channel moderators."
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## Directive Objective
Stop organized group attacks (dogpiling) and enforce safety standards when harassment migrates into private Direct Messages (DMs) to circumvent channel staff.

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## 1. Scope and Policy Coverage
This directive addresses coordinated or multi-user aggression:
- **Dogpiling / Mob Swarming**: Multiple community members coordinating to tag, mock, spam reactions, or ridicule a single targeted user simultaneously.
- **Off-Platform or DM Harassment**: Group members continuing harassment in the victim's private DMs after public moderators have intervened or muted the main channel.
- **Instigating Brigades**: Posting a member's profile or message link into another server with calls to *"go attack this person"*.

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## 2. Exclusion Boundaries and Scope Limits
- **Generic Commercial Spam**: Bot accounts sending unsolicited invite links or crypto scams to random members without personal hostility (handled under **Category 6.1: Cybercrime & Phishing**).
- **Public Group Consensus**: Multiple members independently agreeing on a server rule or topical opinion without coordinating personal abuse.

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## 3. Moderator Response & Evidence Handling
- When DM harassment originates from shared server membership, staff may request uncropped screenshot evidence showing the aggressor's Discord Tag and User Snowflake ID.
- Apply collective sanctions to ringleaders organizing dogpiling attacks.
- Advise victims to adjust *User Settings > Privacy & Safety > Server Privacy Defaults* to restrict DMs from server members.