Maybe posters need to stop posting pictures, baseball scores and complaints about how slow the thread is. Just post what happens.
Pictures don’t slow it down because they aren’t hosted on FR servers- they’re linked to the original source so the images actually come directly from the third party and bypass the FR server.
If I understand you correctly, a reply about the GDP would somehow find it’s way thru the slog and be posted without a problem, but, if one replied with a comment about how it was entirely within the realm of reason that the Professor was able to make a radio out of a coconut, it would have been blocked.
There were very few pictures posted on the V.P. debate thread tonight, and it was slower than the first debate thread, which had multiple graphics posted.
Images don’t matter because they aren’t hosted at FR. Your browser loads the base page from FR, then separately makes connections to wherever the images are.