Board Thread:Policies/@comment-24800939-20160420135146/@comment-100066-20160501224346

You are more conscientious than most and have taken care to properly secure the rights to your avatar...and you make a good point. Avatars seem like a place where we do not need to enforce a policy. That really would be more trouble than it is worth. I am fine having avatars exempted. I could only find one discussion on Wikia about this and it didn't seem to go anywhere, but the discussion was essentially the same as ours (don't do it, even it you are doing it, policing avatars is too much work and they might be okay under Fair Use).

Tagging images as User Images (or whatever we decide on) will prevent images from being bot-deleted, so that can cover images that users want to keep, such as your Power Grid. But I worry that is a slippery slope. How do we keep people from posting stolen images here and hiding them with the User Images tag?