You must have a setting or a plugin somewhere that is conflicting with it. Here is how I just changed my settings on a local install – http://i.imgur.com/nyQ8eZJ.png Notice I added a content limit of 500. When I do that, the images don’t appear. It only shows the text and the featured image. That’s the way Genesis is supposed to work.
I would check to see of you have any other plugins active that could be causing the issue, and deactivate each one until it’s fixed. If you have any custom code anywhere, try temporarily removing it to see if that’s the issue. The only other thing is to double check your settings.
Again, the post images are supposed to disappear when you add a content limit, so if they’re not, then there’s something else conflicting with it.
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