First, I ought to say I have no idea whether it was exclusively an ImageFap "tweak" to the gallery software, or part of it when the folks putting IF together were "shopping around" for open-source gallery solutions to use. Be that as it may.
Confession time: I suggested it to Banger, the fella who ran ImageCash. I thought, since sites like WhatBoysWant.com and PhotoDump already had it or something analogous to it, it would be a quick & easy add-on feature. Banger said he'd try, but I guess he never found the time or lost the inclination until just before the doors closed permanently on his site. At the time, picture Comments were part of the display software, like now a one-time make & send sort of thing that the gallery owner could delete when logged in, but Descriptions that appeared, as on ImageFap, above the large-sized image on the single-image display pages, were not.
I had no idea that, even as a benign "hack" or add-on or rolled-in feature, however it is nowadays, it would be as hit-or-miss in actual implementation as it's turned out to be. And with software as complex and multi-featured as the gallery stuff appears to be, a lot of work and attention would have to be paid to it in getting it past "hit-or-miss." And who has time for that? Especially now? Especially when, as I hinted to the Admin in a now-destroyed blog post, it might be one of those "tweaks" that just doesn't work right, no matter what you do?
So now you know where the idea came from. I know I'd prefer to have it than to see it taken out. Anyone else care to chime in?
BZT