I care little for your history.  I'll thank you to treat me with as much respect as I offer to you.  I'll inform you that your post above is quite snide, snarky, and several other adjectives besides, none of which are "respectful".   I doubt you would care to be talked to the same way you're talking to me, much as you seem to mislike being politely corrected as I've just done.  Your first big rant was belittling, insulting, and rude.  Play it off however you care to.

I've said plainly why I do not like cropped thumbs - because they do not represent the image they're associated with.  Unless the image is a collection of elbows, or armpits, or eyes, or shoelaces, then a cropped piece of the image has little connection for me to its parent image.  I find it irritating and unhelpful.  Your operating system doesn't do that with images.  Your applications for viewing and managing large collections of images don't do it either.

If you have a different preference, that's you.  If thousands of other people have a different preference, that's thousands of other people.  If every other person in the world had a different preference - which they clearly do not but even so - that would be every other person in the world.   Your preferences, the preferences of thousands of other people, the preferences of every other person in the world, these things are immaterial to my preference, so when you follow up your question with that kind of data, it turns into a statement that since you think I'm in the minority, my preference has something wrong with it.  Which it might, but again, it's immaterial to me.  Is that clear enough?

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