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Aug. 5th, 2012 09:39 pmI got an e-mail from a friend today that basically ran "I was on OK Cupid and this isn't you, is it? Because they're using your pictures."
No. No, that profile is not me. They are, in fact, using my pictures --and attaching them to a profile with some views that I STRONGLY disagree with1, 2. If you have an OKC account, I would appreciate it if you would click through and report them for me. My guess is that the more reports they get, the sooner the account gets shut down.
(If you want text to use, JoshZed offered up this, which is well wrote: Mark it as other and for text write "Possibly correct category is "fake user". The photos used are of a specific person I know in real life who has confirmed this is not their profile." You can also identify that my flickr account is Sorcyress)
(Please don't contact them or anything. I figure the best thing to do in this case is to move swiftly and loudly through the correct channels.)
How did they get pictures of me? From my flickr account, which is universally labeled as Creative Commons. Which means that anyone has the ability to access those photos, and use them, for any non-commercial purpose they see fit. But there are two problems with this situation.
First, and more important to me as an artist, my CC license is CC-NC-BY. Which means that you can't use my pictures commercially, and you have to provide attribution. If you fail in either of those, it's straight up copyright infringement, and you are a douche. This person has nothing even resembling attribution --my Flickr username appears nowhere on their page.
Secondly, and more important to me as an activist, they are using my goddamn image! That's _my_ image, that's _ME_ they are claiming to be. And because I know for a fact that the person who made that profile is not me, I am forced to assume the worse. Namely, that what we have here is someone who is pretending to be an attractive young brunette. And I can only assume it's for malicious purposes. I am actively worried that some young person will be enticed into a meeting, and then be hurt or assaulted by someone who intentionally wanted to look nonthreatening.
This isn't going to make me stop using CC --all the times it's been used right, I've gotten bouncy and warm and wibbly inside. But goddammit, I really don't want to have to give up on posting photographs of myself because they just get abused like this, and it angers me that that's a decision I even remotely have to consider.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Needless to say, me and them do not have a very high match ratio.
2: Not to go into detail, but they come across as consistently and strongly sex negative, and that IS a thing I don't want attached to my name.
No. No, that profile is not me. They are, in fact, using my pictures --and attaching them to a profile with some views that I STRONGLY disagree with1, 2. If you have an OKC account, I would appreciate it if you would click through and report them for me. My guess is that the more reports they get, the sooner the account gets shut down.
(If you want text to use, JoshZed offered up this, which is well wrote: Mark it as other and for text write "Possibly correct category is "fake user". The photos used are of a specific person I know in real life who has confirmed this is not their profile." You can also identify that my flickr account is Sorcyress)
(Please don't contact them or anything. I figure the best thing to do in this case is to move swiftly and loudly through the correct channels.)
How did they get pictures of me? From my flickr account, which is universally labeled as Creative Commons. Which means that anyone has the ability to access those photos, and use them, for any non-commercial purpose they see fit. But there are two problems with this situation.
First, and more important to me as an artist, my CC license is CC-NC-BY. Which means that you can't use my pictures commercially, and you have to provide attribution. If you fail in either of those, it's straight up copyright infringement, and you are a douche. This person has nothing even resembling attribution --my Flickr username appears nowhere on their page.
Secondly, and more important to me as an activist, they are using my goddamn image! That's _my_ image, that's _ME_ they are claiming to be. And because I know for a fact that the person who made that profile is not me, I am forced to assume the worse. Namely, that what we have here is someone who is pretending to be an attractive young brunette. And I can only assume it's for malicious purposes. I am actively worried that some young person will be enticed into a meeting, and then be hurt or assaulted by someone who intentionally wanted to look nonthreatening.
This isn't going to make me stop using CC --all the times it's been used right, I've gotten bouncy and warm and wibbly inside. But goddammit, I really don't want to have to give up on posting photographs of myself because they just get abused like this, and it angers me that that's a decision I even remotely have to consider.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Needless to say, me and them do not have a very high match ratio.
2: Not to go into detail, but they come across as consistently and strongly sex negative, and that IS a thing I don't want attached to my name.