Image Posting Etiquette [SPLIT]

[Corran]

Is it better to have a page full of post with 5 images each or a page full of posts with 30 images each?

I'd go with 30 images each, because usually that's as many as the poster wants to put, so they don't have to stop and start a new post in the middle of their string of images. Personally, I find the spreading out of images (over multiple posts by the same person) distracting.

I'd say make an exception. In the screencaps threads I personally don't care how many pictures they post but people don't really need to be flooding the regular threads with photos...

[paizuri]

Having used dialup access until maybe about a year ago, I am inclined to go for faster page loads myself. Meaning less pictures per page and/or smaller pictures.

I'm also not a big fan of stealing other people's bandwidth by inlining a lot of images.

As for the quoting of inlined images, unless you absolutely can't make sense in your post otherwise, I'd say just leave them out.

Does anyone think I should put up a poll with possible choices for image posting rule(s)?

[J-0080]

As long as one option is "Stay the same" and another is "Pie".

[LightningCountX]

why dont you make it so that if you are going to link a picture make it a .gif to save speed and space?

[Zarxrax]

why dont you make it so that if you are going to link a picture make it a .gif to save speed and space?

Because
1. PNG is superior to GIF.
2. JPEG compression is often better for screenshots.

[Nestorath69]

Why don't we just have everyone get a photobucket account, and the only way they can view pics is via clickable links? That way, no image too large, no amount of links is too much, the problem is solved.