sabretalon:- you take "There IS a case for some posts which display images of things which later become saleable products" (and indeed much of the rest of the post where I suggest cases where posts don't appear to be blatant advertising) as "taking it to the letter"? As I see it we can go one of two ways with a moratorium on "commercial advertising". We can either go "to the letter" (which seems MOST unlikely) or we can allow some room for interpretation on posting images of "our own" commercial images (and it's not adverts per se that are banned, but COMMERCIAL adverts - so your image gallery is safe). If, as we have been, we don't take a hard line on images of commercial products that's no reason to disregard the "rule" entirely and blatantly flout it "because it's an image, like any other, and I have the right to rant if I want to".