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> 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

> 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 also don’t get anything in return. Not even “clout”. Sometimes someone will send you a thank you and that’ll make your day. Open Source is another obvious one, but it extends to the real world, too. Some people will plant flowers in public places or do yarnbombing or pick up trash in the neighborhood or whatever. Why do it? What do you get out of it? I mean, I don’t want to be harsh saying “what a dumb question”, but it just kind of makes me uncomfortable how it challenges something that should be celebrated. The next question about it being invasive is good and valid, but this one on its own just sounds like “why not content yourself with passively consuming”. I’m glad he called himself “generous” because it’s true.

mattmanser 6y ago
It's not something they created. You're not really contributing, it's more akin to showing off your stamp collection, but with sexual undertones that make many feel uncomfortable.
- pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
  Wikipedia contributions are also not something you “created”. In fact, you’re discouraged from adding information you have not taken from somewhere else. Archival, compilation, curation, categorization, making information legible and accessible and persistent is still work. See also archive.org. Whether the specific topic makes some people uncomfortable is beside the point. The question was “why do you try to help a website you like prosper without anything in return”. The reward is a more complete foot database and the good feeling of having helped.
  - watwut 6y ago
    Wikipedia contributions are very much created. You are not supposed to copy paste from elsewhere. You are writing own text.
    - gruez 6y ago
      I think he's referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research You can't copy paste, but you're also not supposed to come up with stuff yourself.
      - watwut 6y ago
        But taking existing facts and rearranging them into new text is considered "creating" in basically any context. Books and articles, especially those written for general public, are often collections of already existing facts. And it counts as creating.
exikyut 6y ago
Yarnbombing is nice, TIL: https://www.google.com/search?q=yarnbombing https://www.google.com/search?q=yarnbombing
- woodrowbarlow 6y ago
  it was a trend in my town for a hot minute -- seeing sidewalk trees with cute sweaters was fun, but after the first rain they became gross and the artists never took them down. they stayed up for weeks, some of the more hidden ones for much longer. if you do this, please return to recover your work before the weather gets it. (maybe you can deploy it again in a new spot!)
teachingassist 6y ago
> “this has brought me joy, i wish to give something back” The scenario includes bringing potential harm to an identified person.
- metalliqaz 6y ago
  what harm?
  - eCa 6y ago
    Photos of parts of her body posted on a fetish web site could, potentially, lead to professional and relationship issues, for a starter.
    - jjk166 6y ago
      Presumably the only people who would say "whoa I saw your feet on a foot fetish site" are people who spend substantial time perusing foot fetish sites.
      - jolmg 6y ago
        Or people that would google you and find the site among the results.
        jjk166 6y ago
        Well presumably the photos aren't being posted with your real name unless you're a celebrity or something.
        jolmg 6y ago
        > 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.
finexplained 6y ago
> 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 have literally never experienced this feeling. I've thought about why I haven't a lot, and for me I think it's because I have no inherent sense of "community".
- beaconstudios 6y ago
  I think that's a common experience for people in the modern era, people are very atomised especially in cities and in white collar jobs where there's not much common toil to bond people together.
- Tarsul 6y ago
  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 consuming the rest of wikipedia? Nonetheless, ADDING stuff is a level higher but editing mistakes might be the first stepping stone...
  - Nursie 6y ago
    > wouldn't you go "out of your way" to fix these mistakes? On wikipedia? As someone who has not spent years building up a reputation? No, it would just be reverted in ten seconds flat by whoever had nominated themselves as guardian of the truth about Nick Cage.
    - Ancapistani 6y ago
      That’s not at all been my experience. I’m not a regular contributor, but I correct errors when I come, add sources, and sometimes remove unsourced claims. The most that’s ever happened is that I’ve had my edits reverted until I added citations. Since then I include them by default and haven’t had it happen in years.

mattmanser 6y ago

It's not something they created. You're not really contributing, it's more akin to showing off your stamp collection, but with sexual undertones that make many feel uncomfortable.

pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
Wikipedia contributions are also not something you “created”. In fact, you’re discouraged from adding information you have not taken from somewhere else. Archival, compilation, curation, categorization, making information legible and accessible and persistent is still work. See also archive.org. Whether the specific topic makes some people uncomfortable is beside the point. The question was “why do you try to help a website you like prosper without anything in return”. The reward is a more complete foot database and the good feeling of having helped.
- watwut 6y ago
  Wikipedia contributions are very much created. You are not supposed to copy paste from elsewhere. You are writing own text.
  - gruez 6y ago
    I think he's referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research You can't copy paste, but you're also not supposed to come up with stuff yourself.
    - watwut 6y ago
      But taking existing facts and rearranging them into new text is considered "creating" in basically any context. Books and articles, especially those written for general public, are often collections of already existing facts. And it counts as creating.

exikyut 6y ago

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

woodrowbarlow 6y ago
it was a trend in my town for a hot minute -- seeing sidewalk trees with cute sweaters was fun, but after the first rain they became gross and the artists never took them down. they stayed up for weeks, some of the more hidden ones for much longer. if you do this, please return to recover your work before the weather gets it. (maybe you can deploy it again in a new spot!)

teachingassist 6y ago

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

metalliqaz 6y ago
what harm?
- eCa 6y ago
  Photos of parts of her body posted on a fetish web site could, potentially, lead to professional and relationship issues, for a starter.
  - jjk166 6y ago
    Presumably the only people who would say "whoa I saw your feet on a foot fetish site" are people who spend substantial time perusing foot fetish sites.
    - jolmg 6y ago
      Or people that would google you and find the site among the results.
      - jjk166 6y ago
        Well presumably the photos aren't being posted with your real name unless you're a celebrity or something.
        jolmg 6y ago
        > 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.

finexplained 6y ago

> 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 have literally never experienced this feeling. I've thought about why I haven't a lot, and for me I think it's because I have no inherent sense of "community".

beaconstudios 6y ago
I think that's a common experience for people in the modern era, people are very atomised especially in cities and in white collar jobs where there's not much common toil to bond people together.
Tarsul 6y ago
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 consuming the rest of wikipedia? Nonetheless, ADDING stuff is a level higher but editing mistakes might be the first stepping stone...
- Nursie 6y ago
  > wouldn't you go "out of your way" to fix these mistakes? On wikipedia? As someone who has not spent years building up a reputation? No, it would just be reverted in ten seconds flat by whoever had nominated themselves as guardian of the truth about Nick Cage.
  - Ancapistani 6y ago
    That’s not at all been my experience. I’m not a regular contributor, but I correct errors when I come, add sources, and sometimes remove unsourced claims. The most that’s ever happened is that I’ve had my edits reverted until I added citations. Since then I include them by default and haven’t had it happen in years.