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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 pwdisswordfish0 »

teachingassist wrote: post #142
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…

> “this has brought me joy, i wish to give something back” The scenario includes bringing potential harm to an identified person.

That’s debatable and misses the gist of the interviewer’s question. It was literally “what do you get from contributing”.

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

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Post by Igelau »

ZoomZoomZoom wrote: post #130
quotemstr wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Pictures are an intellectual property of the author, if a person wants other people to spread them, he/she needs to explicitly set the allowing license. It's more complicated than that. What actions require a license? Nobody needs a license to create a hyperlink. The concept of a "link license" was a big subject of debate in the 1990s, but after much hand-wringing and heated discussion, we converged on a permission…

>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 to publicly available foot pictures in their original context. I suspect the author of the article (and a lot of other people) would still be squicked out by the foot-fetishist link-aggregator site Yep, what furyg3 said. I always think about cases like that from a creator perspective.…

> There's always fair use, which should cover things like education, citation, etc. That's a different topic.

This is the weird part. If aliens showed up and started viewing the site in question, they'd probably mistake it for reference material, some kind of critical encyclopedia.

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

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Post by Loughla »

Clewza313 wrote: post #44

Another wiki for a more mainstream fetish: https://boobpedia.com/boobs/Main_Page (NSFW) Interestingly, while it's been around for years, the word "boob" means it's basically invisible to Google.

The amount of time people spend on this sort of thing, just like the feet wiki in the article, is just fascinating. I'm all for having odd hobbies, but this is just next level.

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

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Post by Perseids »

411111111111111 wrote: post #122
monsieurbanana wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

I don't think an eleven year old statement about the status quo is a good source. We've since seen many more examples about how removing contrary opinions from the discussion creates places with negative utility. And lest anyone thinks otherwise: Making text harder to read and easier to scroll over is a clear signal to ignore the comment.

In my opinion downvotes are best used for purposes of moderation, to remove comments that poison the discussion.

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

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Post by batiudrami »

enriquto wrote: post #101
batiudrami wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is that expression? Something like “if your best defence of something is that it isn’t against the law you have already lost”

If that is the case, it means that the people who attack you have already lost as well.

what?

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

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Post by MeinBlutIstBlau »

jdsalaro wrote: post #18

I 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…

I've been attracted to pregnant women since I was 3. Not gonna discuss my childhood much cause I do consider it private but it wasn't a sexual attraction then, but it was definitely a "I can't look away because I like looking at it" thing.

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

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Post by batch12 »

Quarrelsome wrote: post #149
johnday wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Impressive leap of logic to deem downvoting racist. This seems to be the final argument nowadays when all else fails.

As a side note, I have often wished folks could see their downvote count or at least an upvote to downvote ratio. In the past I wondered if I was quicker to downvote, when I had the ability, than upvote.

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