# Allow images in MPSIMS?

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**Created:** [August 14, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allow-images-in-mpsims/819578 "2018-08-14T10:05:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allow-images-in-mpsims/819578/1 "2018-08-14T10:05:17Z")

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There doesn’t seem to have been any issues with images in the Marketplace forum, so how about allowing them in MPSIMS, perhaps for members only?

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**Author:** ![ToughLife](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@ToughLife](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToughLife)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allow-images-in-mpsims/819578/2 "2018-08-14T11:00:22Z")

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Avatars have been allowed,now images … speaking of a real slippery slope …

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**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allow-images-in-mpsims/819578/3 "2018-08-14T20:10:41Z")

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If they were going to go for images, I would suggest a new Image Only forum, that could then be ignored by those browsing from work or on low-speed connections, or otherwise don’t want to see inline images.

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allow-images-in-mpsims/819578/4 "2018-08-14T20:24:11Z")

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> [@Teuton](#):
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> If they were going to go for images, I would suggest a new Image Only forum, that could then be ignored by those browsing from work or on low-speed connections, or otherwise don’t want to see inline images.

What I have seen typically used on other forums is to note in the threat title that the thread is bandwidth-heavy. I think that that would be sufficient, at least to start with. This is usually for dedicated picture threads. I think that an odd picture in a thread is really neither here nor there.