- Demerzel
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- Senior Heroic Member
A bunch of people have already pointed out the abuse issue, so I'll point out a more technical one: loading time.
The image may be scaled down to 90 by 90 pixels, but it will still contain all of the image data that an ordinary 1920 by 1080 pixel JPEG would contain, meaning that each individual image would still take the same amount of time to load. Try it yourself: create a new, blank HTML document and paste this code into it:
<img src="http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Lite_Quickies/quintet _hst_big.jpg" width="90" height="90" />
That picture of the Galaxy will display in a 90 by 90 area, but it still takes the same amount of time for it to load that it would if you were just viewing it in your browser. If you've viewed an image in the past, that image should be cached in your browser and it will load much more quickly or even instantly the next time you view it.
However, if there's hundreds of different people who'd be using this feature, that would mean longer load times for each thread, and longer load times are a turnoff for a lot of people. Sorry, I can't see it working.