ANNOUNCEMENT: The Anti Anti-Blur War

The whole "anti-blur" trend is something we normally considered irrelevant to our moderation. However, seeing as it hasn't died out over so many months, we've decided it's probably a good idea to put an end to it:

What the fuck is an anti-blur anyway?

Anti-Blur images came about because Reddit very cleverly decided that it needed to viciously compress images and not show users the original HD image. A myth was then born, that the second image uploaded would not be subject to this compression. This is false. Anti-Blur images do not prevent Reddit from irrationally compressing images. They absolutely do not work. Nonetheless, this myth became quite popular among the users of this sub specifically. (Seriously, this is the only subreddit where anybody uses or has even heard of Anti-Blurs. What the hell guys.) We assumed that since they are literally useless, and since they tend to sabotage the post more often than not (Posts with multiple images tend to do far worse on this subreddit than single image posts), we assumed that the trend would die out on it's own. It's certainly died out, but there's still some people doing it. Clearly, the trend is popular enough that it will forever perpetuate itself and not die out on its own.

So are anti-blur images against the rules now?

Technically, no. We will only remove a post with an anti-blur image if it's less than 3 hours old AND if it has less than 100 upvotes. Therefore posts with hundreds of upvotes won't get randomly removed for something that's not rulebreaking. However, we do want to end this trend: At best it does nothing, at worst it sabotages people's posts, and it fills the subreddit feed with posts that don't even have maps in their thumbnail.

How do I prevent Reddit from nuking my images?

Just post your map as a comment as well in your post for the mobile users. Reddit does not compress the images in the comments, so everyone can view the HD map from there.