I played around with the idea, but ultimately came to the same conclusion as fire.

Moderation also becomes a whole different ballgame when people are presented with full-sized images without prompts.

When a mod reposted my submission while I was sleeping, when I woke up some people had spammed bestiality. If those images were fully sized, front and center...

It's pretty rough, protecting the whole site from being false flagged to death. Keep it up my dude

well it's alot easier when i'm not getting 500k requests a day lol

it's not a big deal, it's just part of the reality of the internet. doesn't really bother me tbh

there actually hasn't been that many disruptive trolls.

there was a guy flooding votes and gay furry erotica across different accounts with a script, but he stopped once captchas and rate limiting were increased.
wasn't really a serious attack either, just soebody having fun i think.

there is only 1 ban in the database currently.

Making anti-troll mechanisms more specific than a captcha would be interesting. Make them paste sections of the FAQ in on login, like simcity did with the game manual on startup. "What is part b of rule 12", then make them "like" three posts that make the world better or be banned.

bestiality

You mean interracial, right? Nasty stuff.

so i'm considering a compromise.

i'm working on code to expand images in-line right now, without having to leave the page to view image links. afterwards i could add a toggle to auto-expand images at one's own peril.

Thumbnail with hoverover or popover? Sounds ok I guess.

more like click-to-expand, like reddit with RES.

basically links will look like this https://google.com[+]

except the [+] won't be text lol

I'd rather have plain no images. People can post links to images if they want. Basically depends on whether you are trying to build a discussion site or a meme site though. I figure there's plenty of memes on reddit, but open discussion is dead there.

Probably clash against the minimal design of this site.