Seeing as there are zero rules on it, and it had been deemed okay for a long while now.

There in being the question if a person creates a series of threads with in something, what rule guideline then should be followed if they wish to have a banner with in the 1st post.
Would it fall under signature rules and delegations or would it be a new off branch of it?

As a banner is only used once in the whole thread and not on every page like a signature can be used should it be held to a different rule set and guidelines.
Or is it that we shouldn't even have them at all, in which case why don't we have a rule for such a thing?

But really if a connection is to be that impaired by a single picture of a kb of say a max of 140, and with in dimensions of 300 X 300, in one post of a thread.

You think that might hinder you doing anything online period as a single ad would have more one of the flash Ad's here can eat more so then that.
I mean if this were in the case you probably couldn't even run DF on the lowest grade settings and so much with in that I can see back in the day when the forums were made not everyone had connections like we do now, that's not also to say some don't.

It just seems a little odd, that we never looked back into it even though connections have improved a large jump in the norm of who has what, and a lot of the slower things like Dial up are basically gone. Yet we have our older ways, I see the point of the sig rules in the end but the banner being the exact same not so much.