Tranny Outlaws

Godwins Law is quite an old law dating from the early days of internet discussion. The law states that:

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

I was going to write something about this last week when, during all the rumpus caused by Mara over her faked photographs, I was called a fascist by another member of the group for daring to lock a thread or keep some modicum of control over a Flickr group.

I notice this morning that Miss K has already invoked Godwins Law on a discussion on TrannyFlickr where again Mara has started claiming persecution and intolerence.

I still find Mara's barefaced cheek amazing. That she can post pictures that are so obviously different people its unreal and claim that "This is the real me". It's crazy. The tattoos are added or not at a whim, and the backstory creation continues....

Anyway, the issue of Tranny Groups on Flickr has been raising its head recently (and I just remembered its something I've written about before). There seems to be many girls who can't quite see a problem in having thousands of groups, none of which have rules so they all have the same pics in them. They get very abusive if their "right to post" any picture they want to any group they want is questioned.

The way I see it is this. I decide I really really like taking photographs of jumbo jets. I set up a Flickr group for other Jumbo Jet enthusiasts. (oooh I picked that at random, but actually such a group exists).

Anyway, my little group ticks along quite nicely with jumbo jet enthusiasts joining in and posting their jumbo jet photographs when suddenly a railway enthusiast joins and starts posting his pictures of steamtrains.

Well as you can imagine the person who set up the group is well within her rights to remove these images. Which she does. Would the steamtrain fan then start ranting and raving on the boards about how dare the group leader remove his photos? Maybe start likening the group admins to fascists for trying to control what goes on in their group? I don't think so.

Same is true for tranny groups. If a group wants to maintain a modicum of quality on their group and try and create a unique feature by only allowing genuine photos, or not having someone post 8 identical photos with slightly different captions, or crappy photoshop pencil filters being passed off as a hand sketched portrait by a leading artist.... (I kid you not), then it is the right of the group admins to do just that.

But the new wave of tranny flickr members just don't see that. They want every group to be the same. They set their own groups up, and then let it fill up with the same crap that is on every other flickr group.

So you now get groups with names like Cum All Over a Sexy TV and other delightful groups. Strangely a few names I suggested last time I wrote about this haven't yet appeared. Tranny Spam: Post your pic to 20 groups before this one, should really be set up.

With the new Invite comment in Flickr it would be so cool to set up a group and then post comments like "Hey, you've been invited to join Badly Photoshopped Trannies"...

Becky got attacked online recently for daring to speak out at the minority of trannies who just seem to be in it just to make every tranny group a homogenous mess like all the others. Again its very much the "I can do what I want, how dare you tell me what I can and cannot post". They flood every group with the same crap discussions, often just replying amongst themselves or even worse having a 6 post conversation where they are the only poster.

I'm not trying to be elitist, or snobbish. At least not intentionally. But I just wish that they can see that if a group is set up with a very specific role, then that role is acknowledged and the members realise that they don't have a right to mess that up.