What you see on Geek is my use of an obscure WordPress feature called "featured image". When I uploaded the little screen cap, I checked a box, and the software added it to the front page listing. It only works on root posts, not replies.
The other thing goes back many years to when somebody figured out you could put HTML into the subject line. Seeing it could get out of control, we talked about it briefly and said no.
But the presence of the featured image thing sure muddies the water, doesn't it? They're not the same, but it does seem a bit arbitrary when you have to distinguish between root and reply. Maybe neither one should be allowed? I'd rather not go that way; I was actually hoping to popularize featured images to spice up the board a bit. But I still worry about a proliferation of HTML in the subject lines.
I was torn about hiding the image, and making you feel like you'd violated a rule was one consequence I wanted to avoid. That's a poor way to repay your enthusiastic support. I'm sorry to put a damper on something that was meant well.
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Apples and oranges thing
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