Speaking for myself, it's a "problem" but not a pressing one. I'd catagorize it as something that would be nice to have and not something that requires immediate and priority attention. I think a working search engine would be something I'd want the techies to work on before addressing image size.

I haven't found image size to be a serious issue in any of the forums I help moderate but I am glad this was investigated as a proactive step to help posters such as yourself who, though no fault of their own, inadvertantly post a large image. In my perfect world, users should could post acceptable images without the need for any aditional steps on their part to resize it. As you can see from my other response, as much as I enjoy helping other members, I can't resize an image for a member, so the onus is on the poster.