The comments and the top image draw are ways to try and get people to use the viewer page over the direct link. Previously there was no benefit between that and a direct link and it's impossible to monetize a direct link. Although I'm doing alright for myself, I am a student and I'd ideally like Slimgur be self sustaining. If you and the other mods feel I should get rid of comments, then I'll remove them. It was never my intention to take advantage and I'm sorry that I've given you that impression. With regard to the second issue like you said, it was day 1, or at least it was very early on when the privacy settings on the site were first brought up.  I was worried that without the explore page users wouldn't use my site, there are a lot of image hosts out there and I didn't want my site to die because I chose to disable a feature other places had. I changed the language on the uploader to "upload and publish" and gave the mods admin access to the site so that they could remove verification images after verifying them. I didn't hear anything after that and thought that it was enough. I'm not an expert at running a website and I'm learning as I go, again I'm sorry that I gave you the impression that I'm taking advantage, that was never my intention.