Hardly excessively tight, given the number of images displayed on these forums in Avatars and signatures.

Just so you know there are people around here who still have to use 56K.

Broadband is far from 100% coverage in the world today and there are some people who have no choice but to use 56K.

TosaInu wanted this board to be usable by everyone, even 56kers without users being lagged out, hence the 10K policy.

On its own a 60k image might not seem like much, but on a busy forum thread where each user post displays a 60K image collectively they will lag out anyone not using broadband.