kalmar wrote:
If you're stuck on a slow connection or machine that can't handle 'X', you will quickly find out for yourself which threads to avoid, or make some work-around to view. All you need to do is click "back", after all.
Providing a warning is of little benefit. At most, the "wide load" post icon idea might be worth doing, but even then..
You're assuming the device in question has a back button. Warnings may be of little benifit to you (or me, or most people), but they're hardly offensive, IMO.
kalmar wrote:
Additional nit-picky rules just seem nit-picky, and would then need nagging about to remind people. The "nothing too big" is clear and can be pointed to if someone has a problem with what's posted.
Quite. That's why there are none. Except for that one.
kalmar wrote:
Making it the moderators' responsibility to tidy up messages, add warnings and rescale things is adding work-load to a task that should be largely hands-off (not to mention the likelyhood of irritating people).
Well, that's what moderators
do. If someone posts huge images, then they obviously haven't thought things through, so who's going to change things? Granted, I could have just stripped the [img] tags and left a link, but I was being excellent