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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

#191

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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.

> Impressive leap of logic to deem downvoting racist. This seems to be the final argument nowadays when all else fails. I think that's cold for you to wilfuly misinterpret my point so. Fine, we'll apply it to the gold standard. In news.y for the 1800s someone recommending moving away from the gold standard would get downvoted to hell by those that "disagree". Their comment would grey and vanish to most. By encouragin…

Turn showdead on. I too, am concerned about some of the groupthink on HN, but it's not as severe as you'd suspect. What I do disagree with is comments being flagged/obliterated for simply being unpopular.

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

#193
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’s title makes it seem like the person continues to upload her feet without her permission. I feel like that’s clickbait-y, but otherwise it’s impartial.

It otherwise could have been titled “An interview with the man who uploads my feet”, but I guess that one doesn’t invoke as much outrage.

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

#194
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.

This, and Netscape frontpaging :)

... it's like the 90's are staging a comeback, wholesomeness and all ...

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

#195
post #22

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).

I mean, mrskin.com

"Hollywood’s Hottest Buttholes", an actual headline from that site (!)

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

#196

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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.

> Impressive leap of logic to deem downvoting racist. This seems to be the final argument nowadays when all else fails. I think that's cold for you to wilfuly misinterpret my point so. Fine, we'll apply it to the gold standard. In news.y for the 1800s someone recommending moving away from the gold standard would get downvoted to hell by those that "disagree". Their comment would grey and vanish to most. By encouragin…

> "downvote when disagreeing" could lead to structural discrimination against minorities.

I don't see what I wrote as a willful misinterpretation. I guess I could have added sexist, homophobic, etc to the list.

As for downvoting in general, I may not be able to fully appreciate your argument because of a fundamental difference in expectations. I don't really care about downvotes or upvotes or any other fake internet validation of my value. If people want to flag my comments or vote them up or down, fine. I don't see downvotes for disagreement as a way to oppress me. The rules on this site allow downvoting for disagreement and I chose to comment here.

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

#197
post #184

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 found his “origin story” very interesting too. One theory I’ve heard for foot fetishism, which is the most common bodily fetish by far I believe, is essentially a neural equivalent of crossed-wires: Brain areas associated with the feet and with genitals being next to one another. His anecdote felt like an environmental thing though, with him having these foot-centric formative experiences. Though I guess you could…

I heard that crossed wires theory and I just don’t believe it. For me the simplest explanation is that there’s an entire industry built around selling sexy women’s footwear (heels) that draws attention to the foot, so it really shouldn’t be a surprise.

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

#198

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> This website just aggregates them, but there's technically a live link to these pictures. What you see as a technicality is actually a big difference. No one on wikiFeet would have seen the pictures of the interviewer if someone hadn't posted it. Posting something is not explicit consent to do whatever with it. Would you say the same if these pictures were appearing on a shirt for example? Or if they were used in a…

Is this much different from what Pinterest and Google images do?

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

#199
post #184

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I found his “origin story” very interesting too. One theory I’ve heard for foot fetishism, which is the most common bodily fetish by far I believe, is essentially a neural equivalent of crossed-wires: Brain areas associated with the feet and with genitals being next to one another. His anecdote felt like an environmental thing though, with him having these foot-centric formative experiences. Though I guess you could…

I heard that crossed wires theory and I just don’t believe it. For me the simplest explanation is that there’s an entire industry built around selling sexy women’s footwear (heels) that draws attention to the foot, so it really shouldn’t be a surprise.

Why would shoes be considered sexy?

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

#200

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

what harm?

Photos of parts of her body posted on a fetish web site could, potentially, lead to professional and relationship issues, for a starter.
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