I appreciate that the limitation on new users posting images is there to prevent spamming by bots but I'd like to suggest adding a mechanism that allows moderators to manually enable image posting for users where it's clear from their first couple of posts that they're not a spambot.
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There have been a couple of occasions recently where new MR2 owners have signed up and wanted to show us pictures of their car but been prevented from doing so.
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They then have to start spamming the forum in order to build up enough posts to be allowed to bypass this anti-spam limitation which seems a little counter productive to me!