Hi, Tobias. The pictures may not be the individuals at all; they may be pornographic pictures of others that are misattributed. And sometimes the attribution is not to a real name, but to their usernames. In all cases, the intent seems to be to humiliate and hurt the target. Sometimes the goal seems to be to drive them away.
Of course, I don't know the stories of all the respondents who selected that - not even a substantial percentage of them. I was surprised by the prevalence, too, but maybe not as surprised as you given what I *have* seen in nearly 5 years of working in this area at the WMF. People try all different kinds of ways to try to hurt each other, and sexualized attacks of one kind or another are sadly really common. Best, Maggie On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Tobias <church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Maggie, > > On 01/30/2016 02:35 PM, Maggie Dennis wrote: > > In the time I've worked at the Wikimedia Foundation, I have > > (unsurprisingly, given its reported prevalence) come across this kind of > > harassment in my work with Support and Safety (formerly Community > > Advocacy). There have been cases where perfectly harmless pictures of the > > individuals have been doctored to be sexualized and cases where existing > > pornographic pictures that were not the individual were selected and > > misattributed as being them. I have personally been involved in > complaints > > of this happening to both men and women. > > thank you for providing further insights. That is really concerning. > > At the same time, a great majority of users do not publish photos of > themselves, and don't publish their name (which would allow others to > find available photos elsewhere), so it is still a mystery to me how > this very high percentage can be explained. > > Tobias > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Maggie Dennis Director, Support and Safety Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
