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For those of you who have no idea what's going on, Painterr's weekly chop comps ahve been around for a good 41 weeks now and in those past 41 weeks he would directly link the images to the thread and until recently nopassn edited the threads so you have to click a link. He recommended he post attatchments naext time.
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It would take loads and loads of time for Painterr to have to save all the chops to his computer, then upload them. Not to mention it would take loads of posts to accomplish that, possibly enough time between each post to offset the votes in the comp. if he were to simply link to the chops, it would be time consuming (and irritating) to open each one, then close it again. The comps have been fine for 41 weeks, nobody's ever complained about that, and when the pictures are actually big enough to slow down computers and make it hard to see due to it's size, Painterr posts a warning in his title for the thread. Nopassn said that it's also hard for viewers with low resolution screens to see them. Hell, no. I have 800x600 and have never had problems with it. I understand that it is forum policy to attach files, but this makes it 100x easier to judge and view in comp threads. I would also be difficult say, for the weekly photo comps. i vote NO in favour for the attachments in comp threads.