Why Don't Photos Always Show

I'm not only asking because of the money. Sometimes the picture serves some other purpose such as to help explain what you are talking about, or to add interest to your discussion.

If uploading to the interest sections it isn't a problem because I can always try again, but when adding it to a discussion it isn't the same. The photo is there until I post the discussion, and then it is gone. As for the possibility of copyright issues, some of the pictures I have uploaded are ones I have created myself. When photos won't upload in the interest section there has always been an explanation at the bottom of the page such as file size too large, need more description, etc. When uploading a picture to my discussions, the picture shows up until I post it, then the picture is gone.

I don't mind the ones in the interest section quite so much because at least there you can have a second shot at them. If you are posting them to a discussion you only get one shot. If the picture doesn't show up, you don't get a second try.

Thank you for the best response. The only other thing that I came up with is sometimes when the server is running slow that it "times out" before going through. Other than that I really don't know. I haven't had a problem except when the server is slow and it's been to the interest section and I just try later. I feel bad that I don't have a better answer. :)

As far as I can tell, you can upload photos to the discussion before you get to 500, just not to responses. I could do that since the very beginning. When posting a response there is no button until you reach 500. I'm working towards that goal, but right now have been trying to figure out why it only works part of the time on the discussions.