Ray Saintonge wrote:
An option to hide all images is still useful, but that has nothing to do with offensiveness. It would be welcome by people with slow internet connections as we keep getting away from plain vanilla text articles.
I agree with this, it does sound like a useful option. And I, too, don't think that it does anything at all for us in the discussion of disputed images.
If someone says "Gee, I'd like to be able to read an article about the Nick Berg situation without having to look at the actual picture unless I choose to do so" then responding with: "Fine, you may turn off every single image in Wikipedia" doesn't sound helpful to me. I doubt if many of the people who have a preference against looking at severed heads are going to be satisfied with that answer.
--Jimbo