I moved this post to keep the other thread on topic.
100k sounded odd as there was supposed to be a scheduled bump in size to 200k.
It was, in fact, not bumped up but has now been fixed.
As for embedding pictures there was an issue in the last iteration of the forum where images imbedded in the posts where a problem. A lot of really large images were slowing down the pages for those that did not have faster bandwidth. If you feel like we should re-examine our policy please let us know why and we’re always willing to give things a second, third, fourth look.