God, it really bothers me when women are "opressed."

So I’m required by law to investigate any new college gossip/blogging trend, and I’ve stumbled upon a new one thanks to a few comments, spam and otherwise, posted on OTR: PoshSociety.com. 

I’ve already been on JuicyCampus which I found to be one of the most vile displays of human emotion I’ve seen in my life, but Posh Society doesn't look nearly as evil, and just left me feeling confused.

First there’s a super secret registration process. I had to input my .edu e-mail (only college kids allowed), and then wait a few hours for a return message. Then after I click the registration link, it informed me that a moderator would have to review my account to see if I could join. What, am I try to join the Skull and Bones society here? It’s a damn college gossip website. I'm surprised they didn't tell me to go stand on the M in the Diag at midnight or something.

But the thing is, it’s not really, and I’m not precisely sure what it is. The format seems to be you can submit well, anything, and the moderators either write a bit of their own commentary about it or draw on submitted pictures in MS Paint because everyone knows how cool it is when Perez does it.

And they seem to have a big thing about getting people’s first and last names. “Here we see Jenny Krasinksi and Ashley Wilson taking a break from their beer-guzzling pregame to smile for the paparazzi.” Um, awesome?

So far I’ve yet to see anything besides random people’s Facebook pictures on the site, and they have certainly not been anything scandalous. Maybe some people drinking beers? I don’t know. I think I saw some cleavage, once.

And I can’t tell if it’s people submitting pictures of themselves trying to get “famous” (and if you want to get famous, you know who to call), or if it’s Posh Society's staff just pulling random people’s Facebook pics and acting like they were “anonymously submitted.”

Lastly, every post has a “True” and “False” voting mechanic at the bottom. I guess this would be for saying whether a local bit of gossip is true or not, but with all these random pictures it’s just like “yes, I suppose girl standing there with cup is true.”

I suppose this site could be a good idea, if there was anything remotely interesting on it. But the first time a topless sorority president photo or an in-fraternity kegstand surfaces, you can bet Posh Society will get hit with more lawsuits than they can count.

So as always, I’ve come to the verdict that you should stick to OTR, where we don’t use specific names (with few exceptions), we don’t steal your Facebook pictures (with few exceptions), and we have actual content to be read (always). All this being said, OTR is better with you guys contributing, so anything worthwhile happenings on campus deserves a tipline shout. I'll try to make it into a good read, and I won't use MS Paint.