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sorcyressI 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.
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on 2012-08-06 05:46 am (UTC)no subject
on 2012-08-06 09:43 am (UTC)*pulls out the flamethrower and has it At The Ready*
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on 2012-08-06 05:45 pm (UTC)Guess it worked?
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on 2012-08-06 02:26 am (UTC)no subject
on 2012-08-06 03:41 am (UTC)Are you on OKC?
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on 2012-08-06 01:41 pm (UTC)(I don't publicize or share my OKC name mostly because I have no interest in actually using the site properly --it's there for me to play with when I'm bored and want to answer random questions, not to actually meet people. But also because OKC is crap at people who identify as neither male nor female, and so I decided to go the interesting route there, and let Erik (my male self) set it up. It's proven valuable to me in the past to not link his username with Sorcyress.)
~Sor
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on 2012-08-06 03:47 am (UTC)I've reported it.
My gut feeling is someone is trying to hack you by putting up the fake profile with answers dissimilar to yours.
It's probably too late now, but it might have been interesting to get one of your friends (in the correct age range) to message the person and see what happened. (Do they answer. Do they come across as crazy. Do they actually try to set up a meet. Etc.)
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on 2012-08-06 01:45 pm (UTC)I'm leaning against them trying to mess with me being the case, in that they're not really effectively pretending to be me --they say their name is Crystal, and being as they've clearly found my Flickr account, they should be able to at least glean my first name from information there.
One of my friends sent them a message, against my views on how to handle the subject. My guess is that whatever the intent of the profile, it's not going to be interested in talking to or meeting up with men, but I am interested to know if it plays out at all.
~Sor
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on 2012-08-06 05:05 am (UTC)First time I've reported a profile on OkCupid, and now I find out I'm allowed to review other people's reports. Huh.
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on 2012-08-06 01:46 pm (UTC)~Sor
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