I'm in agreement that pictures "will slow page loading times and increase the amount of storage space on the server". However, I am also in agreement that pics are helpful in certain scenarios such as "a photo showing how to rig a certain bait or tie a knot".

This is one of those decisions for the moderators that will make 50% of the people concerned happy, and the other 50% upset. As mentioned before, the opportunity to post pictures on this site is there...in multiple forms.

I for one like the format the folks here at fishin.com have the forums and would rather not have to scroll down through picture after picture of the exact same thing.

Perhaps a compromise could be found in this suggestion: allow pictures to be added to posts on all the forum pages but remove the "reply with quote" option so the same picture wouldn't be added to each reply made. If we need to quote what someone has said, we can simply highlight the words and copy/paste them into our reply. Just a thought...