PSA: Inline image/photo comments enabled as an experiment
r/options mods are testing inline image comments for one week to help with support screenshots, while keeping video comments disabled.
Up until now, the mod team has disabled the ability to add photos or images to comments, as a way to reduce spam and low-effort memes. Recently, several legitimate use cases for photos in comments having arisen, like a case where someone needed help with some brokerage screens and needed to share a screenshot to help explain what they were seeing.
Let's test the waters as a community for a week and see how things go. We'll evaluate the results over the next 7 days.
We are NOT enabling inline videos in comments. That is a new feature being rolled out site-wide and which prompted this experiment.
NOTE: Photos and inline images have always been enabled in posts, but by Rule 8, we filter out posts that are only a photo, or that are mainly a photo with very little text. In posts, photos should support the text content, not the other way around.

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