- iamthey
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The only coin for which I have to purchase loyalty is honor.
Prognatus Archos
* on the Internet contain adult content that is not suitable for children or people with sensitive dispositions.
* and to ensure your children do not post images of themselves,
The answer to that question, as is with many other questions involving member privileges, is the policy. The restriction on posting images is part of an offspring of the bungie.net policy/code of conduct. What they are trying to avoid is the posting of inappropriate/ explicit content on the forums. In addition they do not want the younger members of the community, whose parents may have reservations on them posting pictures of themselves; to be able to give out identifying content. Finally one of the lesser reasons would have to be the drag on processing power, and bandwidth. These forums are not only for those of us with super computers, but they are also for those who have older models. If everyone could post images in their signatures, and in their posts then it would take ten minutes or longer for those with older computers, or low speed connections, just to load a simple thread. There is no reason to have unloadable images...
Reasons
The population of the community would be cut drastically by...
* Concerned parents would take their children off because they do not want them posting images of themselves.
* Users with slower computers would suffer because it takes significantly longer to load the images, and flash videos in everyone’s signatures. As a result many of them would leave.
* There would be inappropriate content everywhere. Many people would be offended, and would leave.
Additional reasons
In addition...
* The images, and videos would be distracting.
* Spam would rise to levels using offensive content.
* Even those with faster connections would notice a change in load time.
The only things I see coming out of allowing people to post images, are bad bad effects.
-Iamthey
[Edited on 10/22/2006]