Posted by: MassDrunkenness
Everybody should be able to,No, because new users, for example, cannot and should not be trusted with tools and features that can have a major impact on other users' use here.
Posted by: MassDrunkenness
this forum is so bereft of poster rights it is unbelievable, every other forum I have been to you have been able to embed pictures and Youtube videos, and most other forums I have been to allow swearing.Two points to make:
1) A lot of people who frequently visit this forum and either criticise or suggest site features, often seem to completely disregard the site as a whole, and the main reason people are here; they don't look at user demographics.
2) "Every web forum is the way it is because users wanted it that way. Yes, the design of the forum software certainly influences behavior, but the classic 2001-era web forum paradigm assumed that what users wanted made sense for the rest of the larger internet. As it turns out, groups are their own worst enemy. What groups want, and what the rest of the world needs, are often two very different things. As it turns out, groups are their own worst enemy. What groups want, and what the rest of the world needs, are often two very different things."
The quote above is from an article on Gamification by Jeff Atwood, here. I encourage everyone to read it as well. I posted it because I think it's applicable to my first point.
The "page load time" argument is void too, since, presumably, images would not be stored on bungie.net, whichs allows browsers to download them asynchronously and simultaneously with the bungie.net page.