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An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by ptha »

bvm wrote: post #27
mrweasel wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This article gives me the opposite impression, this is exactly what the internet should be. There are people out there who just like feet, and now they have a community, a place to meet others who share their interests (and fetishes). WikiFeet even have reasonable rules, only post people who have an IMDB profile. I'm sure there are a bunch of rules they violate, in terms of copyright and so on, but they're at least t…

The guy did say he just creates an IMDB page of someone when he wants to upload their feet though which does render that rule...well not pointless but not exactly point...ful?

From the article: and I’ll put her name in IMDb. And she didn’t have a page, so I couldn’t post hers.

I would take the: "put her name in IMDB" to mean he just did a search. On first reading like you I did think that meant he created an IMDB entry, but the 2nd part of the sentence changed my mind.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by [deleted] »

bvm wrote: post #27
mrweasel wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This article gives me the opposite impression, this is exactly what the internet should be. There are people out there who just like feet, and now they have a community, a place to meet others who share their interests (and fetishes). WikiFeet even have reasonable rules, only post people who have an IMDB profile. I'm sure there are a bunch of rules they violate, in terms of copyright and so on, but they're at least t…

The guy did say he just creates an IMDB page of someone when he wants to upload their feet though which does render that rule...well not pointless but not exactly point...ful?

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Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by yosito »

TIL there's a wiki website for foot fetishists.

I believe everyone has a right to their own fetishes. Nothing wrong with being into feet. But the thing that really puts me off about this interview and the WikiFeet website is the lack of consent. Uploading photos of someone without their consent is wrong. The fact that the purpose is to satisfy a fetish adds an extra layer of creepy. Regardless of how the interviewer feels about it, and regardless of whether the photos came from a public Instagram account, it's not ok to upload photos of someone to a fetish website without their consent.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by [deleted] »

bvm wrote: post #27
mrweasel wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This article gives me the opposite impression, this is exactly what the internet should be. There are people out there who just like feet, and now they have a community, a place to meet others who share their interests (and fetishes). WikiFeet even have reasonable rules, only post people who have an IMDB profile. I'm sure there are a bunch of rules they violate, in terms of copyright and so on, but they're at least t…

The guy did say he just creates an IMDB page of someone when he wants to upload their feet though which does render that rule...well not pointless but not exactly point...ful?

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Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by adventured »

janpot wrote: post #9

It's so refreshing how this article doesn't try to impose an opinion on me. It really engages me to think about the matter and form my own.

The article reads like something that I might have seen online 15-20 years ago, before everyone went batshit crazy. It's nice. She covers it very matter-of-fact without trying to force the reader to view it or react to it in a particular way. It's the hallmark of someone with a noble intellect in this day and age.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by andsens »

bvm wrote: post #27
mrweasel wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This article gives me the opposite impression, this is exactly what the internet should be. There are people out there who just like feet, and now they have a community, a place to meet others who share their interests (and fetishes). WikiFeet even have reasonable rules, only post people who have an IMDB profile. I'm sure there are a bunch of rules they violate, in terms of copyright and so on, but they're at least t…

The guy did say he just creates an IMDB page of someone when he wants to upload their feet though which does render that rule...well not pointless but not exactly point...ful?

Yeah, I misread it the same way you did. He meant that he was just searching for her name, he wasn't creating a page for her.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by camillomiller »

yosito wrote: post #33

TIL there's a wiki website for foot fetishists. I believe everyone has a right to their own fetishes. Nothing wrong with being into feet. But the thing that really puts me off about this interview and the WikiFeet website is the lack of consent. Uploading photos of someone without their consent is wrong. The fact that the purpose is to satisfy a fetish adds an extra layer of creepy. Regardless of how the interviewer…

I do not agree. These are photos posted publicly on Instagram or Facebook. Anyone could see them. This website just aggregates them, but there's technically a live link to these pictures. And no, the fact that someone uploads them to a service whose ToS they have accepted makes no difference. You're posting something publicly? To me that's explicit consent that you want people to see them. If those pics were behind even the slightest wall (like a private account) or taken from private messages of course that would be different.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by thendrill »

If the year was 1950 your comment can sound something like:

"sure homosexuals don't bother anyone, and I am not saying it is wrong, but regardless of that I am uncomfortable about it and it feels icky and gross to me, and I think it should be wrong..."

Do you see the parallel?

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