I don't want to be a damper on anything, and there's nothing wrong really with the above photograph because they're still tiny infants, but members are reminded to be careful about posting photographs, so as to ensure innocent beings aren't included lest their reputations get sullied by association with primitivity.
I'm thinking of individuals who are related in some manner to inhabitants of Skins's island, but who aren't primitives themselves. Such as, for example, Atman's wife or crazy Sarah's "boyfriend" or Omaha's Ed Norton's mother or my fellow alum's wife.
In an ideal world, such pictures should be only of primitives themselves, no one else.
And everyone's aware of the rule; only photographs of primitives of widespread public notoriety, are allowed--the list is short, but photographs of any of the Big Three or of the Bostonian Drunkard are okay. One assumes that as my fellow Nebraskan gears up his campaign for the Bellevue City Council, he will also become a primitive of widespread public notoriety, joining the "okay" list.
Links to self-posted photographs of primitives of non-public notoriety are allowed.
There's been grey areas before; the wretched miserable hate-filled old bitch Anne is a private person, for example, excepting in her very public role as an official (a minor one, but an official nonetheless) in the Kansas Democrat party. I wouldn't put up a picture of her as a primitive, but I imagine putting her up as a public official in that state party is okay; after all, such pictures have been in the newspapers before.
Ditto for the very first original Top Primitive, the one from 2005, Dysfunctional American, as shown in newspaper and news-wire photographs, but not as shown on Skins's island.
Or California Piggy, for another example. I think if I'd successfully managed to persuade Watchtower magazine to buy her poetry and feature her face on their front cover, it'd be okay. But I wasn't successful, and she's still a private person. (But again, links to self-posted photographs of primitives of non-public notoriety are allowed.)
And no "hot-linking" of photographs from Skins's island--the photographs should be from one's own photobucket or whatever account. When one "hot-links," the source is paying for the band-width, and rightfully resents it.
I'm pleased to say that this, on the eve of the fourth anniversary of conservativecave, has never been an issue, members naturally and instinctively following the rules and respecting the boundaries.
