Off-topic, but the man in the interview reminds me of this lovely song about a foot fetish
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
#142> 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…
> “this has brought me joy, i wish to give something back”
The scenario includes bringing potential harm to an identified person.
Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
#143I went in thinking "meh, let's check" and was surprised and quite amused about the "wholesomeness" of what could have been a very strange encounter. He seemed respectful and she seemed unbothered by the whole ordeal. Interesting, not my cup of tea, but definitely interesting. Something else that caught my attention was how early he believes his interest for feet developed, as early as six and nine years of age. I won…
It’s pretty strange, I can remember liking feet in preschool and kindergarten. I have no idea why, though.
Lately it’s gotten to be more of an “in theory” than “in practice” thing for me as I’ve come to learn about fungus and micro biome, etc.
Eg https://au.news.yahoo.com/man-contracts-lung-infection-smell...
Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
#144It would be hilarious if Instagram changed their site consent form to simply say that ‘your feet may end up on a foot fetish website.’
How many users would continue to use Instagram?
Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
#145You know how every now and then someone comments "That's it, HN has officially become Reddit" or something along those lines? Well, I think this would be a good opportunity... (Usually, those comments get downvoted, so please feel free.)
Why do you think they are downvoted? To me, it comes across as pretentious grandstanding, but I also understand the sentiment. I've not been using hacker news for very long, so I'm not familiar with what was posted 5+ years ago
Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
#146You know how every now and then someone comments "That's it, HN has officially become Reddit" or something along those lines? Well, I think this would be a good opportunity... (Usually, those comments get downvoted, so please feel free.)
Nahh nahh. You are absolutely right. I love it when the techno "elite" throws out their principles the moment something feels icky but has no set social norms only parallels that are to icky to think about in an objective way. So you are absolutely correct. Hn is just reddit suddenly
Who has principles that state it’s ok to take someone else’s personal pics from social media and post them as effectively porn?
Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
#147TIL 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…
> But the thing that really puts me off about this interview and the WikiFeet website is the lack of consent.
A bit of a harsh, knee-jeek reaction to something entirely meaningless. Topped with a vague proposition of privacy in a public forum.
It's just feet. Unless someone knows you, your "privacy" isn't likely to be in peril from a site filled with feet.
Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
#148You know how every now and then someone comments "That's it, HN has officially become Reddit" or something along those lines? Well, I think this would be a good opportunity... (Usually, those comments get downvoted, so please feel free.)
For what it’s worth the last guideline “addresses” this [1]. Seems to be a bit of a meme ‘round these parts.
I feel this submission is too quirky and long-form for the front page of Reddit. On occasion HN does a good job surfacing these sorts of articles.
Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
No. I am stating that this attitude of "downvote when disagreeing" could lead to structural discrimination against minorities. That is exactly what I'm saying, nothing more, nothing less.
Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
its actually part of redditquette to _not_ downvote when disagreeing. Granted, lots of people ignore redditquette but the convention is there.