# Just using a picture as a reply
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-using-a-picture-as-a-reply/1006348
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [August 28, 2024, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-using-a-picture-as-a-reply/1006348 "2024-08-28T05:54:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-using-a-picture-as-a-reply/1006348/21 "2024-08-28T18:45:47Z")
> [@asterion](#):
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> One of the things I liked about this board was that images as replies weren’t a thing.
[ ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/93/Buddy_christ.jpg/300px-Buddy_christ.jpg)
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-using-a-picture-as-a-reply/1006348/22 "2024-08-28T19:11:48Z")
> [@Manduck](#):
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> Please let’s not have any more rules.
Oh come on, ATMB is where people come to ask for new rules, there are several up already.
And this isnt quite a new rule, we already have a rule about blank links with no explanation.
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-using-a-picture-as-a-reply/1006348/23 "2024-08-28T19:14:14Z")
An embedded image isn’t a link, though.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-using-a-picture-as-a-reply/1006348/24 "2024-08-28T19:14:31Z")
I’m not wild about them, but they don’t bother me. Sometimes they’re done in a very effective way. The obscure ones that have to be explained are kind of questionable. It’s easy for the person posting it to think it’s less obscure than it is.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-using-a-picture-as-a-reply/1006348/25 "2024-08-28T19:15:10Z")
> [@DrDeth](#):
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> And this isnt quite a new rule, we already have a rule about blank links with no explanation.
The picture _is_ the explanation. It’s all right there presented to you.
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-using-a-picture-as-a-reply/1006348/26 "2024-08-28T19:21:34Z")
This is not a visual representation of an aural expression . . . or a pipe for that matter.
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-using-a-picture-as-a-reply/1006348/27 "2024-08-28T19:23:05Z")
> [@needscoffee](#):
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> The picture _is_ the explanation. It’s all right there presented to you.
But it is often obscure.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-using-a-picture-as-a-reply/1006348/28 "2024-08-28T19:32:44Z")
If I’m worried that a picture I post might be obscure, I either put some text with it, or look for a gif that has words on it.
It’s no worse or different than posting a non sequitur bit of text that doesn’t make sense, and that happens too. That doesn’t mean we should ban text-only replies.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-using-a-picture-as-a-reply/1006348/29 "2024-08-28T19:37:34Z")
> [@DrDeth](#):
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> But it is often obscure.
“Being obscure” isn’t really against the board rules.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-using-a-picture-as-a-reply/1006348/30 "2024-08-28T21:03:40Z")
> [@needscoffee](#):
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> The picture _is_ the explanation. It’s all right there presented to you.
Who has the time to type 1,000 words?
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2024, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-using-a-picture-as-a-reply/1006348/31 "2024-08-29T05:40:53Z")
I get it, another rule? Okay, but we have “we need a rule against using MAGAt” “We need a rule against accusing a group of malice”. “We need a rule against 'People are saying” and so forth.
So I concede. It wasnt a very good idea.
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