If you're running a company account and would like to post a fancy ANN thread then you may want images after registration.
Yes, this.
We can't be the only ones in this situation. We would be willing to pay a small price for the access, maybe $100 worth of Bitcoin would be a good USD normalized amount to shoot for, but paying 10 BTC? The branding is worth something, but not almost $40,000 at today's valuations.
In the past, 10 BTC might have made sense, but in today's market where ICOs, Token Sales, Airdrops, and other crypto-focused projects essentially require an ANN thread on Bitcointalk, the price could be lowered drastically and still weed out the spammers.
It seems like 1 entity spamming NSFW images is the reason for this policy. It seems like there is enough community-wide pain to justify revisiting this rule.