As a reader/responder, I don't feel like the pictures are very important. My answers are pretty much text-based. I don't know how those who make BOTD's feel about the pictures though. If the usual BOTD makers need them simply as prompts, perhaps the pictures could just be e-mailed to them as a group?
I like David's solution. I hope we don't decide to delete the BOTD's because there are some which are fun to re-read or revisit after a while. (There are also some RL BOTD's which contribute to the on-going "stories"/bios of Jack's kids.)
Perhaps we could simply include a link to the picture instead of embedding it in the post? I'm not sure if that would be a violation of copyright or not.
The BOTDs that I submit are virtually always based on a pic where the subject is doing something rather than just a simple portrait. Thus for me no pictures would equal no BOTDs.
Apart from that I consider that the pic does make the BOTD come alive in a way that a simple scenario would not.
But, I have an idea: what if the picture was done as the first reply to the BOTD? That way a moderator could then go back after replies stopped and simply delete that reply.
I find that my most creative thinking to create BOTD scenarios has occurred without looking at any pictures. In fact, when I have looked at any particular picture, it acted to lock-in my thinking to the situation that I seemed to have seen, rather than expanded my thought processes. So, I actually try to avoid going through the pictures in order to let my mind do more roaming. I thank Zac for letting me now think that I am perhaps not quite so unique that I don't find pictures to be that helpful.
While the pictures certainly add some flavour and an extra dimension to the BOTD scenario the picture is not always essential for it to make sense. "Do Golden Arches Result in Grilled Buns?" is an example where the scenario is built around the picture but most of the rest recent BOTDs would work without the picture. So perhaps rather than limit the time the BOTDs stay on the forum just remove the pictures rather the whole thread if the picture is not critical?
We have had a recurring problem the last nine months or so with losing pictures we use for the BOTD scenarios and elsewhere.
Unfortunately, while we know that we have had several accounts cancelled, we don't know why they cancelled them. Was it because there was a copyright complaint, because they simply saw a copyright, or did someone see the BOTD and not like the way we were using them? We just don't know.
Because of that, I'm considering limiting the time the BOTD's stay posted. It's possible for me to set a format so that posts are deleted after a certain amount of time with no posts. I'm hoping that limiting the number of pictures we have at any one time might reduce the attention we draw and allow us to keep things going longer.
If anyone has thoughts or opinions on this, please let us hear from you.
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