Watching and reporting

I have watched with dismay a whole drama unfold on a megasite where someone I held in high esteem - admittedly, I did not always see eye to eye with her, but the relationship was based on respect - was forced to leave the site, as whatever rightful grievance people had, they just turned it into a distasteful attack on her person and she could not take it anymore. The perpetrators were even applauded for it.
I watched another case of someone being thrown out of the same megasite because of his behaviour involving writing obscenities about models. It was a case of good riddance. The guy seemed unstable and perhaps too much was made of his utterances. But still...
Then this morning I learnt about someone else whom I have always admired and with whom I even run a group  on said megasite, deciding to wind up her blog and leaving, giving up modelling altogether. She can no longer take the dramas it involves.
I am full of doubts, at this point in time. It seems to me that to be a member of the megasite in question you need to be involved in policing. I find that too much of an effort, I am a busy lady.
 I know of someone on that megasite who seems to spend much of his time  spotting and reporting those who steal 'art' from Met-Art, turning himself into a balance as the French say. It makes me wonder. Does this person not have anything else to do with his life?

I am not saying that stealing from Met-Art is the right thing to do, but hey, do you really have to take on this policing? Can you not let the site deal with it? It will, in due course, and if it does not, is it really your loss? Especially when you consider that it is not necessarily, not in all cases anyway, done for profit. Some people enjoy having a go at processing images. Whether this is art or not is beside the point (not that Met-Art is great art anyway). So many times people have reprocessed the images I have displayed, sometimes they asked me beforehand, sometimes they simply presented me with a fait accompli, in some cases I only found out by chance. To be honest it has never bothered me.
It's this mind set of watching over what others are doing which I find disturbing. This idea of being able to say "I caught you and now you are going to pay for it" to me is a sign of great meanness masked as righteousness.
Some of these people so keen on policing also have a past as bullies. This very person now so bent on reporting members of that megasite who steal from Met-Art tried to get me off the megasite by casting aspersion on my character. I let it go and of course he did not succeed. I hold no grudges, ever, but I never forget.
Where was I? When I joined that megasite it was because I wanted an outlet for my photography, as a model and later, as a photographer. I was not quite prepared for its dramas. Now I am. I no longer spend much time on it. I take the view that I have paid my subscription, I will upload my stuff. Sod it if people dont like it. That's all , really.

(Photo by Korrigan modelled by Alex B)