As of late, we’ve had a few commenters that have engaged in “graph wars” i.e., they throw up an image of a graph with little more than “look at this” attached to it in a comment thread. Then someone else responds in the same way.
One of the most repeated graphs in the last two days is this one, being used multiple times:
There are others.
These are repeatedly uploaded into comments, each time somebody wants to make the same point they’ve already made elsewhere.
The problem:
- Repetitive images used in comments get uploaded into our database each time they are used in a comment.
- Each image takes significant space in the database, compared to a comment, and our database of WUWT content is already overloaded.
- An overloaded database runs slower for everyone, and costs us more in the long run.
- Many of the people doing this are not paid subscribers, so this ends up being a loss.
Then there’s the irritation of seeing these again and again and again. It adds nothing to the discourse.
So, here’s the deal. STOP IT.
You can link to external images rather than filling up our database.
If the problem worsens, I will be forced to limit image uploads to paid subscribers.
-Anthony
