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Originally Posted by maxdelmax
Since you're asking.... I appreciate all of the recent comments and I believe that @Laylak, @anonjohn and @sillywong all make valid points. I do know that the thread was originally started with the idea of showing women dressed and undressed on the day of the event. Then, even before Pimeyes came along, some members started including social media and other pictures of the women. There was a spirited debate - lead at first by the esteemed @Fango in favor of not over-sharing - that was never really resolved. Now, here we are.
I have Pimeyes and I'm really good at using it. At first I shared many of my finds with the forum and in general it was positively received. But after awhile it just didn't feel right. I believe most of these women, if we could ask them, would prefer to stay anonymous and just enjoy the experience. Of course there are exceptions and of course they have no real expectation of privacy given the nature of the activity. But I personally didn't enjoy my part in outing them any longer.
So @nosprap - you should do what you feel is right as I'm not sure there is a way to really determine a group consensus. Though if I were to guess, I'd say that while many of us enjoy this guilty pleasure - we also don't want to promote it.
Either way - I appreciate, as I'm sure others do, your sincere question to the group. We could use more of that here at OCC. Thanks!
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Some points well made, and well taken!
I will say that the previous commenter who called this thread "creepy" does need to take a good hard look at the rest of this forum. We are talking about a forum that openly hosts leaked nude photos of college co-eds, alongside dressed photos of them with their families, and while wearing clearly marked college apparel. 99% of the content on this forum has been taken and/or posted without the consent of the subject.
At the very least, the participants of the WNBR (and other public events) are willing participants, who know full well that their photos will be taken, and most likely shared online. This is a far cry from most of the threads on this website, which depict subjects in private settings, where it is reasonable for them to expect their privacy to be kept.
In saying that, I do agree that posting clothed photos of WNBR subjects and "outing" them as participants could effect the number of willing participants in future years, just as the presence of photographers in the first place would no doubt limit the number of people willing to take part.
In acknowledging the above point, I will think again about posting my collection on here and perhaps keep them private, in the hope that this forum does not contribute to the dwindling numbers of female participants in future WNBR events.
However, with the facial recognition technology becoming more widely accesible, this kind of thread is inevitable!! I suspect that with the vast quantity of WNBR content already online, there are countless people already running facial searches, and identifying as many past participants as they can. We would be naive to think that this material is not going to make its way to the internet, whether its posted to OCC, or any number of other online platforms.
The stark reality is, modern technology will leave future participants with nowhere to hide, and the inevitable result will be the death of these events due to loss of female interest, or a greater need for participants to wear face coverings, which really takes a lot of the fun out of things.
Imagine a world where there were no cameras and no internet, the WNBR would likely attract tens of thousands of participants, living freely without the fear of publication. It would be a fabulous event to be a part of, but the catch-22 is that we would never get to see evidence of it!