Your goofy posts often have content I want under that spoiler, but I want it in an easier to read package (in addition to, not necessarily instead of, a stack of pretty cover art). In fact, I daresay I really enjoy the meat of most of your goofy posts! But I suppose another, related truth is that I come on the forum to read not to look at pictures, so even browsing on a desktop or laptop I am put off by tall stacks of images, because it means I have to scroll scroll scroll to get back to the content I came to the forum to read. The real exceptions to this are threads devoted to images (easy to avoid if I'm not in the mood) and reviews. A few users on here, elkinfencer10 especially, write longer, more detailed reviews and place images intelligently so that it complements and adds context to the text. It makes the images feel much more meaningful and less like an image dump. (Which is not to say that I think you just dump images and run.) Some other users will dump a single image as their post, with no other text or context, and I think that's a waste of their time and mine.Exhuminator wrote:What Marurun is getting at, is something he gets onto me about fairly regularly. He doesn't like large pictures or animated gifs in posts. He says this is because it negatively affects the experience of smarpthone users browsing via limited cellular bandwidth. However, it does not negatively effect the experience of laptop and desktop users browsing with unlimited internet. I try to compromise by using spoilers, but the new forum loads images behind spoilers, even if you don't open the spoiler.
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That would make one's overall internet experience easier on one's data plan, not just dealing with Exhuminator's goofy posts.
But even without limited bandwidth or data caps, I will always wage war against animated GIFs, because the images take up so much data for so little return. I also tend to find most uses of them to be highly disruptive of the reading experience, especially because people often choose animations that are far larger and longer (and flashier) than necessary to make their point.
/rant
Oh, right. Before I forget: Get off my lawn!
