@ both Thomas and Isay....
I can see both points of view in fact. Having threads with lots of pictures makes them slow to load on some people's machines. I'm lucky enough not to have that problem but I can understand that some people have to wait
ages for such pages to load, and it must be really annoying. I've heard people complaining in other parts of the forum about the vast numbers of pictures we post here, so it obviously affects them badly.
The Gallery is a neat place to put pictures.
But on the other hand, some of the thread titles carry warnings (e.g. 'Warning! Lots of pictures!' or 'Hot Kyo pics!') or have a title like 'prettiest J-rockers' from which you can deduce it will have lots of pictures in it. If not, perhaps an admin could place a modifier at the top of threads like this one, to warn people about the pictures maybe making their machine too slow. Because putting the pictures in the Gallery would be nice, but then you can't comment on them simultaneously. And contrary to popular belief, some kind of semi-intelligent conversation does occur in these threads! (Even - shock! horror! - occasionally pertaining to the music... lol) But seriously, sometimes people have a question like 'How do I make this costume?' or 'How to get this hair?' or even 'Which DVD was this screencap from?'... etc. etc... I think you get the picture. If pictures were 'siloed', so to speak, I think any 'meaningful' convo around them would die out completely.
Personally, I don't understand why it seems to be a problem for some people. If the pics f**k up their machine, why not just refrain from opening those threads? Or is that too obvious? I only say this because most of the comments I've seen about it come from people who never (or rarely) actually post here (they may well visit and lurk, though...). So I'm kinda curious about the reason the pics seem to bug people who have (it appears) no interest in them anyway.
Hey Thomas - thanks for the info and the smily face which lets us know you mean it in a friendly way!
But is it a disguised command or a suggestion? :?