Attachments: Discussions about what are good sizes

[coopdad]

First, thanks for responding so quickly.

Exactly the "philosophical" discussion that I want to have.

In my case the site that is of issue is an off-road enthusiast website that could have large numbers of members and photos. They want to show off their trucks and the events they attend. And while they are technically inclined, many are more inclined toward analog (welders, cutters, etc) than digital (image editing).

Two things I notice when doing a little research:
1. this site set all its image file sizes to 1mb (but I am guessing very few if any screen shots, etc are that large)
2. the competitor site completely took attachments out of the additional options choosing to force people use an outside image hosting. They have large numbers of visitors and it obviously was taxing their resources, enough to greatly inconvenience members.

Being a new forum needing traffic I feel I need to bend a little more than that at least for now.

Is it highjacking my own thread if I ask about removing "max width" and "max height" settings? This site has no max height but on some file types set the width to 700 (I assume 700 has something to do with the width of the fixed-width style of the skin).
John