# Time To Revisit Posting Images and YouTube Links?

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**Created:** [June 28, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-revisit-posting-images-and-youtube-links/544730 "2010-06-28T00:27:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-revisit-posting-images-and-youtube-links/544730/11 "2010-06-28T17:45:47Z")

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I don’t see the big deal. Other sites, even ones with volunteer staff, manage fine.

And when people are saying “we used to have images” it must have been for about 2 days because the only thing I can find announcing their disabling is from back in 2000 with Duck Duck Goose saying they were disabled “a while ago”.  
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=27472&highlight=images](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=27472&highlight=images)

I don’t know how much goatse spam was a problem as all she mentions is:

> [@Why won't images work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-images-work/22332/5):
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> Images were disabled a while ago because some people were abusing the privilege, mainly by posting huge graphics that ate up bandwidth and made the threads take forever to load. Also, there was excessive use of unauthorized smilies from other websites, the use inordinate numbers of authorized smilies, and also some people were using huge graphics in their signatures, which evidently slowed things down, too.

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