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The spoiler tag just hides the image, but it still loads, as far as I know. We have the Art Room thread. Maybe we need to confine all images there, so people can avoid the image-laden posts altogether if they choose? It would be easy enough to moderate that—delete any post containing an image other than an avatar if it’s posted outside the Art Room. If you need to provide illustrations for your challenge or request, do it in PM, or email it. Does that work?

Based on what I’m seeing in the HTML, my hunch is the browser would load it automatically (it might wait, but it might not).

Just a moment…. testing the spoiler idea….

Now that I’ve had a chance to sleep on this, I can see a potential problem with forcing people to use url’s linked to pictures off-site. What can happen is people deliberately leave a link to what they describe is a particular legitimate picture when in reality it’s to a very, very nasty site, designed to do nasty things to your computer, or even to a website with highly illegal content. This can, and does, happen elsewhere. All we need is a pissed off person deciding to leave, but not before leaving a parting gift. Another problem is that they could be providing a link to a legitimate website with a legitimate picture, but that website later disappears and is replaced by one of those nasty sites previously described. That’s a problem that’s occurred here at least once. Oh, and I’m assuming this is what people are talking about, linking to pictures that are hosted off-site?