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Originally Posted by Zeener Diode
I can see this leading to a 4Chan-like atmosphere.  |
Yes, exactly. Let's keep image dueling confined to specific threads, ideally just in Photo Safari, and leave the rest of the board as mostly text.
As for labeling threads with pictures, I personally don't think this is a big deal either way, so long as the pictures are topical -- if there's a discussion on building patios and you find a perfect example of what you're talking about on Google image search, I think it should be fine to img-link it into the thread even if the OP didn't explicitly allow images. So I'd say we follow the guidelines people are spelling out as a courtesy where we can, but no one's going to jump down anyone's throat if an illustrative pictures is dropped into a non-pic thread. As
Zeener said, threads often grow organically into directions the OP may not have guessed.
NSFW pictures, on the other hand, are a big deal -- anything that's remotely borderline that's not in a thread labeled NSFW in the title, please hide in spoiler tags or just put a link (labeled NSFW) instead of an embedded image.