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ORIGINAL: zombiegurlsos
Thank you for the advice.... on the free hosting sites....

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ORIGINAL: crumpets

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ORIGINAL: J0K3ER
what are you trying to say crumpets, is there any risk associated with uploading to file hosting websites

There are multiple privacy risks, some of which are related to the upload, and others which are not related specifically to the upload.

Unrelated to the upload itself is that all unencrypted web sites expose a glaring privacy breach, so, the first thing to consider when uploading is whether the image hosting site is encrypted. (Just look for the additional "s" in http). The second thing to consider (with all web sites) is that they SAVE your IP address (and other metadata,such as a quick visit to http://panopticlick.eff.org will reveal).

So, the first rule of thumb is never use your own IP address!

In addition, image-hosting web sites save the image meta data also, and often PUBLISH that meta data. What's in image meta data? Potentially a lot. Your EXIF information in a picture can pinpoint you down to the serial number of your camera and the GPS location of the mirror in your bathroom (almost literally). That EXIF data also reveals the original picture (even though you cropped out your grandma, there she is, in living color, STILL in your original picture!).

So, in the worst case, you upload a picture that you took from your camera, which then makes all that information available for the world at large to see. That's fine for a picture of your dog, but, if it's a kink-related picture, that could be potentially embarrassing.

There are many solutions, but the simplest solution, even when in the comfort of your own home, is to NEVER USE YOUR OWN IP ADDRESS when partaking in kink-related sites!

Instead, use VPN or TOR or a VM or Tails or whatever floats your boat, but never log in or post ANYTHING of a kink-related nature to any site that doesn't encrypt the entire communication channel (always look for the "s" in the https) and never upload an image that you haven't stripped of metadata beforehand!

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ORIGINAL: MistressVeronav

Really because I was on collarme for several years and never received a graphic threat of rape! This wasn't a "role play" message.

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ORIGINAL: crumpets
Having every variety of profile imaginable (most of which are simply experimental honey pots), I can safely say that almost any female profile gets inundated with graphic depictions, rape being one of the milder ones.

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ORIGINAL: Wanderling

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ORIGINAL: J0K3ER
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Sorry about that.
I had posted to the wrong thread so I removed it but it wouldn't let me delete so I just put a period in there.
I guess I should have used a better emoticon to indicate the mistake.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

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ORIGINAL: crumpets
Having every variety of profile imaginable (most of which are simply experimental honey pots), I can safely say that almost any female profile gets inundated with graphic depictions, rape being one of the milder ones.

am I understanding this rightly that you have multiple profiles on cs, some of which are pretending to be female?

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

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ORIGINAL: crumpets
Having every variety of profile imaginable (most of which are simply experimental honey pots), I can safely say that almost any female profile gets inundated with graphic depictions, rape being one of the milder ones.

am I understanding this rightly that you have multiple profiles on cs, some of which are pretending to be female?

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ORIGINAL: Spiritedsub2

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

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ORIGINAL: crumpets
Having every variety of profile imaginable (most of which are simply experimental honey pots), I can safely say that almost any female profile gets inundated with graphic depictions, rape being one of the milder ones.

am I understanding this rightly that you have multiple profiles on cs, some of which are pretending to be female?

A past mod told me very many men have multiple profiles on this site (one guy alone has in excess of 400) and they are mostly female profiles. I believe there are far fewer members of CM/CS/CC than the member total would suggest.

And clearly men like crumpets are blessed with a vast amount of free time.

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ORIGINAL: Spiritedsub2

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

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ORIGINAL: crumpets
Having every variety of profile imaginable (most of which are simply experimental honey pots), I can safely say that almost any female profile gets inundated with graphic depictions, rape being one of the milder ones.

am I understanding this rightly that you have multiple profiles on cs, some of which are pretending to be female?

A past mod told me very many men have multiple profiles on this site (one guy alone has in excess of 400) and they are mostly female profiles. I believe there are far fewer members of CM/CS/CC than the member total would suggest.

And clearly men like crumpets are blessed with a vast amount of free time.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

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ORIGINAL: crumpets
Having every variety of profile imaginable (most of which are simply experimental honey pots), I can safely say that almost any female profile gets inundated with graphic depictions, rape being one of the milder ones.

am I understanding this rightly that you have multiple profiles on cs, some of which are pretending to be female?

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ORIGINAL: zombiegurlsos

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

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ORIGINAL: crumpets
Having every variety of profile imaginable (most of which are simply experimental honey pots), I can safely say that almost any female profile gets inundated with graphic depictions, rape being one of the milder ones.

am I understanding this rightly that you have multiple profiles on cs, some of which are pretending to be female?

If crumpet is, than that is crumpets business and it it totally cool under the current TOS as long as those ID's which Crumpet has not admitted to are not used improperly.... improperly being the operative word here.... blah blah blah....

bounty, I suspect there are more men out there with fringe multiple-personality-"Sybil" disorders than there are women with this type of maladjustment. I have yet to meet or hear of a single (as in solitary, not as in unattached) woman who goes around creating fake male profiles, whether it be for her own amusement or in the name of *research*.
(I have my own pet theories about this, but I'll keep them to myself.) I have heard of a well-meaning matchmaking friend/sister setting up a profile under her shy brother's or close male friend's name in order to find him a girlfriend, even of kids trying to set up their single parent to start dating. Those are rare exceptions.

Now, zombiegurl, this kind of behavior is not his own business in the same manner than a conman's underhanded, conniving schemes are not his own private business.
Your definition of "not used improperly" cannot be qualified as to what constitutes *harmless* intent - that of being of no consequence - and cannot be quantified with any measuring stick by whose standard of acceptability.

dcnovice had the perfect quote for this, which I'm probably mucking up. . . . That bad men [can continue to] exist because good men do nothing.

Did you ever see that Jodie Foster movie where she gets gang-raped on a pinball machine in a public place while bystanders stood there passively and did nothing to intervene?

Besides, I see time and time again where the same individual makes posts on the same thread under his motley assortment of multiple profiles. Often, coming to his own defense. These sorts of deceptive practices are in violation of ToS and/or forum guidelines.

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ORIGINAL: J0K3ER
I usually dont care about masking my IP address since i am not breaking the law and fuck

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ORIGINAL: J0K3ER
am I ONLY uploading the pic"? am I uploading any other personal info along with the pic that i don't know of . e.g. info stealers. other than that I definitely have nothing to worry about.

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ORIGINAL: Spiritedsub2
And clearly men like crumpets are blessed with a vast amount of free time.

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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul
Yes, he has freely and repeatedly talked about having maintained several different profiles over the years, all female. He apparently uses them to run social experiments so that he can come here into the forums and tell women how they feel.

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ORIGINAL: dreamlady
I see time and time again where the same individual makes posts on the same thread under his motley assortment of multiple profiles. Often, coming to his own defense. These sorts of deceptive practices are in violation of ToS and/or forum guidelines.

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ORIGINAL: Spiritedsub2
I agree with you. Personally I think we should not be able to have more than 1 profile. But since each person with multiple profiles boosts the site's membership number, I doubt that will happen.

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ORIGINAL: crumpets

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ORIGINAL: dreamlady
I see time and time again where the same individual makes posts on the same thread under his motley assortment of multiple profiles. Often, coming to his own defense. These sorts of deceptive practices are in violation of ToS and/or forum guidelines.

I have seen (or suspected) this many times.
That's both a TOS and an ethical no no.
I'm pretty sure the mods would block this practice if/when notified as that's a classic misuse of nyms in almost all forum entities.

I call it like I see it, depending on the severity of the offense, or the dubiousness of the offender, and so do many of the rest of the forum posters with catching onto multiple sock puppets.

But I'm not a tattletale to the authorities that be. The Mods have bigger fish to fry than having to deal with those who can't or won't stand their own ground or fight their own battles by lodging spurious complaints, much less for Admin to be running around in circles having to smack the hands of every attention whore who has no meaningful purpose in his/her life than to be hanging out on kinky sex sites, surfing for nekkid pics, making a general nuisance of himself, and/or getting his periodical humiliation fetish fix by making a series of asinine posts.