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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 setr »

jolmg wrote: post #270
jjk166 wrote: post #268

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Well presumably the photos aren't being posted with your real name unless you're a celebrity or something.

> To be clear, I am not a celebrity. I have decent Twitter following > my own wikiFeet profile, which included my full name, birthday, and photos of me and my exposed feet "Presumably"... Presumably, for better or for worse, lots of people use their real names online, not just celebrities, and there's no reason to presume that people that share the images won't also share the name of the person.

from the article, at least wikifeet specifically has a rule of IMDB-available only, and has at least one person following through on it.

Regardless, if someone refuses to hire you because your feet appear on a foot fetish site... it would be a very odd refusal. Perhaps if your feet were involved in some immoral activity, but on its own it's pretty meaningless.

"I'm sorry, but I found images of your bare-naked foot in the sand, online -- I don't think we'll be able to move forward with this. You might encourage others to expose their feet, or make people uncomfortable once they've seen your big toe."

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

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Post by Nursie »

the_af wrote: post #289
Nursie wrote: post #288

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I’m sorry but it’s very true. People on Wikipedia have their patch and will revert corrections on a whim. Just as others will remove contributions that meet the criteria purely out of their own ignorance. Wikipedia is a great resource, but at some point the knee-jerk deletionists won over the culture behind the scenes. It’s toxic for outsiders for the most part.

I don't know what to tell you. Like I said, that hasn't been my experience for minor edits (I don't have time for larger edits, and the few times I argued on controversial topics it was of course a mess, but that's to be expected: it happens here on HN as well).

I mean, I've literally done this for the birth year of an actor I went to school with, and had the above insta-revert happen, and watched pages get deleted on notability because the person nominating for deletion hadn't heard of one of the most prestigious literary awards in the UK.

I'm willing to accept that each person's experience is different, perhaps it's just unfortunate, but it seems to marry up with a lot of other self-reported wikipedia experiences I've seen on HN over the last several years.

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

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Post by k12sosse »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #140
toyg wrote: post #125

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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...

We need a swipe left/right ratemypoo. That site was my jam.

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

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Post by Khelavaster »

finexplained wrote: post #226
Tarsul wrote: post #213

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Imagine you are reading wikipedia every day for years and really like its content and it gives a lot to you and then suddenly you see grave mistakes on some of the sites (like when I saw that wikipedia had the wrong year for nicolas cage's oscar win!), wouldn't you go "out of your way" to fix these mistakes? I mean wouldn't it annoy the living hell out of you to know that this mistake lives on while you go on consumi…

I have actually spent considerable amounts of time reading math related wikipedia articles in graduate school, though those tend to be well written and researched. More often you find ways that things could be explained more clearly. No, the thought wouldn't even occur to me. I'd just recognize the mistake and move on to what I was doing at the time.

You're probably too tired out to have the neurotransmitters to promote the energy to consider so much more.

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Post by ducharmdev »

FooBarBizBazz wrote: post #243
jjk166 wrote: post #203

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Seems more likely that a massive industry popped up around selling sexy footware (as opposed to say sexy satchels or sexy mittens) because there was a substantial demand for it. Perhaps the success of the industry has reinforced and perpetuated the belief that feet are sexy, but it doesn't make sense that some industrialist woke up one day and said "I'll make an extremely impractical shoe and sell millions by convinc…

Side note: Women's heels, in Western Europe, evolved from shoes worn by Persian cavalrymen; they were designed to stay in the stirrup. You still see something similar in "cowboy boots". Women appropriated the shoes as a symbol of empowerment at a time when other "butch" fashions were being borrowed (e.g., epaulets). That they made intimidated clomping noises as you walked around was half the appeal. Then the shoes be…

Do you have a source for this? Not that I don't believe you, but just curious about the history.

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

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Post by FooBarBizBazz »

ducharmdev wrote: post #295
FooBarBizBazz wrote: post #243

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Side note: Women's heels, in Western Europe, evolved from shoes worn by Persian cavalrymen; they were designed to stay in the stirrup. You still see something similar in "cowboy boots". Women appropriated the shoes as a symbol of empowerment at a time when other "butch" fashions were being borrowed (e.g., epaulets). That they made intimidated clomping noises as you walked around was half the appeal. Then the shoes be…

Do you have a source for this? Not that I don't believe you, but just curious about the history.

Sure:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21151350

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Post by PurpleFoxy »

fxtentacle wrote: post #113
camillomiller wrote: post #38

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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 e…

The law is quite clear on this. You're granting Instagram a license to display the image, so they are allowed to do that. Other websites aren't, unless you grant them a license, too. So the foot fetish website is infringing copyright. And the author of the image can sue them for damages. They can also ask ISPs to blacklist the page if they don't comply. Kind of all the stuff that the MPAA does when they find a movie…

What damages? Were you selling those feet pics?

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Post by erezsh »

exikyut wrote: post #134
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.

I wish more people were obsessed with useful or insightful information the way they are with sex kinks.

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Post by kaba0 »

Nursie wrote: post #292
the_af wrote: post #289

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I don't know what to tell you. Like I said, that hasn't been my experience for minor edits (I don't have time for larger edits, and the few times I argued on controversial topics it was of course a mess, but that's to be expected: it happens here on HN as well).

I mean, I've literally done this for the birth year of an actor I went to school with, and had the above insta-revert happen, and watched pages get deleted on notability because the person nominating for deletion hadn't heard of one of the most prestigious literary awards in the UK. I'm willing to accept that each person's experience is different, perhaps it's just unfortunate, but it seems to marry up with a lot of…

I think it varies wildly based on topic. Under some (I’ve heard history is like this) there are quite large wars, but many others are not as preciously guarded.

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Post by efreak »

h0p3 wrote: post #263
beaconstudios wrote: post #188

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Another one I love is philosopher.life, aka "h0p3's wiki" where this guy h0p3 shares his personal thoughts philosophies and personal online interactions. It's really charming and interesting and a real throwback to the "old Web" of personal websites.

Well, hello there! That's extremely high praise. Thank you. You're making your way into the ℍ𝕪𝕡𝕖𝕣𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱 too. =) It's a pleasure to speak with you. Conversation is a sacrament (and an art well beyond me). I hope to capture what I love about the web: people who make life worth living. For those who haven't already seen them (these people are rockstars), I'm also a huge fan of my beloved: https://wiki.waifu.haus/…

Just a note: it would be nice if the color changing of the shapes at bottom left could be disabled, perhaps by tapping/clicking them. Reading the site on mobile, my eye keeps getting drawn to them, distracting me from what I'm looking at. On desktop, I'd use a user script/style or nuke everything extension to remove it, but that's not possible on mobile webviews.
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