All of us who have torn down a game have had "oops" moments where we're not sure what goes where on the playfield because we forgot to take that photo. Or we realize that whoever worked on the pin before us did NOT put it back together the "right way"... but it's not clear exactly what the "right way" is.
One of the many great things about Pinside is that you can almost always get an answer by asking...but it might be hours or even days before you get that answer. And if you have dozens of questions (because your machine is really messed up, or you're a newbie, or you're an experienced idiot, or...), you could start annoying the people who were originally happy to help...
So wouldn't it be great to have a repository where, for each pin, you could see all the photos every pinsider took while shopping that pin? We all take 100s of photos. If we pooled them all together in one place, I think all of us would be able to find that one photo from that one angle that we forgot to to take, or a shot of how things are SUPPOSED to be assembled vs. how they were rigged on our machine.
To make it easy to contribute, there don't need to be any captions or even meaningful file naming - just dump your folders into the pinside repository - desperate people will be happy to sort through 1000s of files to find the photos they need, and it will be great pin porn for others. (Perhaps, in the future, volunteer(s) for each game could generate some structure/organization but I wouldn't want that to be a gating item for getting the photos out there for everyone.)
It could be a new subsection of the individual game summary pages that already exist.
Thoughts?