[JimDabell]

What problem are you pointing out? The only thing you’ve done is severed the audit trail, which removes any trust in the image that was imbued in it by the original poster. Now when people wonder if the image is authentic, they can only rely on how trustworthy you are, not how trustworthy the original source was. This is working as the GP intended as far as I can see. You can’t add unearned authenticity this way, only remove it.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

I pointed out a way to silently sever the audit trail, at which point it sure seems like we've done a lot of work to roll out a whole new system that has such a gaping hole in it that there's no actual benefit.

[JimDabell]

It’s not a hole though. By severing the audit trail, all you have done is remove trust from your copy.