Photo requirements

When photos are mandatory.

Enforced at publish time. A listing that fails these rules is never posted, so there is nothing to remove afterwards.

Settings

Setting	Default	Values
Require photos	Never	Never, Always, Above a value
Value threshold	0	Any number. Only used by “Above a value”
Photos per item	1	1 to 8
Trade-only items need photos too	Off	On, Off

Require photos

Never requires nothing. Always requires photos on every item. Above a value requires them on items priced at or above the threshold.

Turning any of these on applies to new listings only. Existing posts are untouched.

Trade-only items need photos too

An item with no asking price has no value for the threshold to compare, so this setting decides it.

With Allow asking prices off, no item has a price, so this setting governs every item in the subreddit.

That combination is worth checking: “Above a value” with this off, in a trade-only subreddit, requires photos on nothing.

Notes

• Photos are uploaded through the app and hosted by Reddit, so upload time is recorded server-side. It proves recency, not possession.
• Set Photos per item to 2 to require the item plus a timestamp shot.
• The cap of 8 is fixed.
• Every photo on a listing is sent to Reddit with the post, whatever the item count, so all of it goes through Reddit’s own review. The plain-text body names the first forty and then says how many more there are, which keeps a bulk lot’s links from crowding out the item descriptions automod reads.