How do we know you posted a link to the real poster's picture? There's no difference. Or what if someone posts a dirty word? No difference. We have moderators who deal with issues like this every day, and obscenities don't lay around for days waiting for someone to delete them. You're looking for a problem where none exists.

I'm OK with pictures supported in more places than just Trip Reports; for a while they were (accidentally) enabled in the KLM forum and we had no issues except for the improved user experience of having seating photos, terminal maps, etc. available right in the post. I do not think, based on my experience moderating three forums here plus on other boards, that adding photos would be an undue moderation burden. They're just content, and they get treated like any other content.

At the same time, I would hate to see FT turn into a kiddy forum with obnoxious blinking signature photos, etc. The TB would, in its wisdom, need to be specific about what is and isn't allowed: topical images of a reasonable size, no animations, nothing in signatures, for example.

I also like the idea of both avatars and country flags, if the same rules apply.

With respect to smileys, I'd like to see FT update them. What we have now looks like AOL circa 1994. And a few more wouldn't hurt, as long as they are smileys and not obnoxious animated graphics inline with the text: macs smashing PCs over the head with a hammer, the puking smiley, "this thread is worthless without pics" are all examples of the kinds of things that don't add anything positive to the FT experience. Smacking the forehead, crying, not saying a word, now those would be OK. And please, please get rid of the ":O" one that looks like it's about to blow chunks. There are scads of better interpretations than we have now. How about we replace them all with something like this: http://www.mouserunner.com/ShinySmil...iginalFull.png.