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Can we please not start any new photo congrats, or at least ones with contests?

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for these reasons:
a. the board space it takes up is amazing and frustrating to people who have slow connections, use the internet on their phones, and people who are not interested

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b. they don't have anything to do with names; they are a contest of "who can find the neatest stock picture?" and I don't think they qualify as "name games"

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c. I am not sure if using these stock photographs is legal - actually, I think it is legal, but it's kind of unethical. We are using the products of real people's real livelihoods for our fake families

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d. It is a bit creepy, but that is subjective. But don't you think it's a bit creepy? Those are real people in those pictures.

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I know a lot of people have a lot of fun with these, but really - they don't have anything to do with names. Can we...? I am trying to be as polite as possible but I am at a table of loud adults with sewing machines and cannot concentrate well. I know Bernadette and Darkest agree with me, I do not know if there is a whole group of people who secretly are really annoyed by them or not, I suspect there is but I might be totally off base.