Bingowings said:

As for the pictures thing if you had framed you initial request in practical terms it may have got a better response ('politics is mostly a wordy subject, the pictures are slowing my page loading times could you please post less...that sort of thing').

You are very right. I don't know what was wrong with me, I was clearly out of line when I said:

C3PX said:

Okay, so seriously, all this spam is getting pretty old. Makes it a pain to just browse the thread and read posts. Since EVERY SINGLE other off-topic thread has become a spam feast, could we maybe consider toning it down a little?

So, sounds like I did everything just right except for failing to specify that one of the reasons it was making the thread a pain to browse was the bog down it was causing?

if it had been phrased that way I would probably have been lending you gentle support (there would be no way of telling if my support would have helped but it would probably have been there).

Well, considering YOU (not Fink or anyone else) were the one who decided to be an ass about it and give me and the others asking for the tone down a hard time, I'd say there is most definitely a way of telling it would have helped. Would have helped so much, in fact, that there wouldn't have even been an issue at all.

As it is much larger pictures (sometimes too big for the site format to support) are frequently posted on the Politics thread but they go unnoticed because they are deemed 'seriously pertinent' and not 'just jokes' which are part of any political discussion indeed part of politics in practice.

The "larger pictures frequently posted in the Politics thread that go unnoticed" are not typically a problem for my internet connection, because they are not every other post like the ice cream picture fiasco, and usually I am on a faster connection than I was on that day.