Earlier today a new user wasn't able to share a mockup to improve their question. Since Mockups share the image restriction (requiring 10 rep) brand new users can't use the Mockup feature.
I think Mockups would be a great part of the first user experience and not allowing new users to post them must be frustrating. Unlike images it's hard for a spam user to make anything spammy or offensive with Balsamiq's tools.
Could we get an exception for Mockups somehow?
Unlike images it's hard for a spam user to make anything spammy or offensive with Balsamiq's tools.
Since the rendering of the images happens client-side by the Flash editor, a technologically able user will not have a problem uploading any image via that route.
In addition to that: As soon as we remove the restriction, UX.se is "that site on the internet where you can use Balsamiq for free, with no nag screens".
Lastly, you of course know that what's of the foremost importance in a question is the text. Posts with Mockups already tend to contain less descriptive text. Since a good question should never depend on an image – not exclusively but at least in part for searchability reasons – it's a risk to open us up to questions that essentially look like the very first test question I created when developing this feature:
– tongue only partially in cheek.
The threshold for using the balsamiq editor already is extremely low, but there has to be some restriction.
