Look, the photothread is OK. There are problems though, but those aren't too bad. People monopolizing the thread and posting pictures not of them is not cool, and people monopolizing the yappy or replying too much without pictures is a problem.
Yappy is OK, just so long as we don't go off on wild tangents for too long. Also, no to being creepy, but I don't think that's been a problem for a while.