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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 Quarrelsome »

monsieurbanana wrote: post #114
Quarrelsome wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well these are tears of the RIAA and MPAA aren't they? Its not like we solved those problems beyond DMCA takedowns, a legal hammer that was ineffective at scale or new services that made copyright infringement the worser product. We exist in the age of information and the age of mash ups, there is nothing _technically_ stopping these people from doing this so to do so we need to _create_ something to do this. Otherwi…

On this website, downvotes for disagreement are allowed. Take a deep breath, downvotes don't hurt.

Sure they don't hurt but they encourage a combative world of discussion where brigading matters more than words.

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

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Post by ondrek »

salex89 wrote: post #10

Haha, not what I expected to find on HN this morning, but I'm glad I did. Some human quirks are fun. Maybe because this guy doesn't look intimidating.

Exactly! Quite a nice refreshment and storytelling between startups, politics and tech.

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

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Post by somedude895 »

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 noticed that wikiFeet has pretty strict rules about whose feet and what kinds of photos you can post. The person has to have an IMDb page to be fair game. Do you pay attention to those rules when you want to post someone like me, who isn’t as well-known?

> Yeah. For example, a musician from England who performed barefoot, like I’ll find a picture I think is sexy, and I’ll put her name in IMDb. And she didn’t have a page, so I couldn’t post hers. But you did.

I feel the same way, but this seems to me to be a rule to make sure that only pictures of people who have considerable public exposure to begin with are okay to be posted, which seems sensible to me.

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

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Post by exikyut »

severak_cz wrote: post #7

For every weird niche hobby there is a guy who is creating literal database of something with almost scientific precision. Mix it with rule 34 and you got things like WikiFeet or some Czech site which is literal database of nude scenes in our whole cinema history (sorted by movies, actresses and director including screencaps of course).

Case in point being e621 (https://e621.net/posts, or https://e926.net/posts to auto-filter NSFW)

The thing that makes me double-take is the consistency, breadth and depth, and liveness of the tag system.

Like, I want this level of OCD, meets del.icio.us, meets HN.

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

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Post by exikyut »

pwdisswordfish0 wrote: post #42

> So why not just look at feet on Instagram, or screenshot them for yourself? What do you get out of posting them to another website? This question has always been weird to me, but apparently there are people who don’t experience “this thing is good, i wish to contribute” or “this has brought me joy, i wish to give something back”. I mean, thankfully there are still enough others that we can have Wikipedia, where you…

Yarnbombing is nice, TIL: https://www.google.com/search?q=yarnbombing

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

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Post by simias »

monsieurbanana wrote: post #114
Quarrelsome wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well these are tears of the RIAA and MPAA aren't they? Its not like we solved those problems beyond DMCA takedowns, a legal hammer that was ineffective at scale or new services that made copyright infringement the worser product. We exist in the age of information and the age of mash ups, there is nothing _technically_ stopping these people from doing this so to do so we need to _create_ something to do this. Otherwi…

On this website, downvotes for disagreement are allowed. Take a deep breath, downvotes don't hurt.

Downvoting for disagreement is toxic to discourse and how echo chambers like Reddit are born. It may be tolerated but it shouldn't be encouraged IMO.

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

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Post by johnday »

Quarrelsome wrote: post #129
411111111111111 wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And before anyone says differently, this is pgs stance on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691

it greys the comment out though and makes it less discoverable though. For example, the issue is that it permits "tyranny by majority". Imagine, if you will a 1950s America where people are trying to post about civil rights and being downvoted into invisibility. I just want to encourage the art of _not_ pressing either button. Its fine for things to exist that you don't agree with.

> Imagine, if you will a 1950s America where people are trying to post about civil rights and being downvoted into invisibility.

Are you labouring under the misapprehension that there were no civil rights leaders before the 1950s, and this was not exactly what happened to them?

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

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Post by bidirectional »

enriquto wrote: post #96
kachnuv_ocasek wrote: post #87

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> Now let's suppose for the sake of argument (and without loss of generality) that this foot fetish site were just a list of hyperlinks That's a huge loss of generality.

> That's a huge loss of generality. Not really. It's just a couple of innocent javascript lines away (on a browser extension) to the site with visible photos.

Well no, in the article the author mentions pictures posted to their Instagram story. These images are only publicly visible for 24 hours, and I imagine Instagram also does some manouevering to stop them being easily linkable.

Also the obvious massive difference that such a model would allow the original poster to delete the image.

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

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

toyg wrote: post #125
adventured wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

WikiFeet itself feels very "old internet": a basic site about a very narrow niche, user-powered, with no pretensions and no hope of making any money.

Reminds me of the old "Hot or Not" sites.

Remember RateMyVomit and RateMyPoo? Real class acts. Brought to you by the fine people that ran rotten.com.

Kids, these days...they don’t know what they’re missing...

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