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Our first Posting Rule!

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 9:53 pm
by Tombstone
Hi Everyone,

As most of you have noticed, ForumGarden is not littered with "READ THIS BEFORE YOU POST" warnings in any of our forums.

Unfortunately, we now need our first official posting rule. Here it is:

1. Do not hotlink images or graphics in your post! Please attach your image or graphic to your post.

Why?

a. Because hotlinked image(s) tend to be large and they blow ForumGarden's margins - making it very difficult to see or navigate through our site.

b. Because these images and graphics are almost always taken offline or moved by the provider you are hotlinking them from - leaving your post empty and broken.

If you need additional information about hotlinking, please read on:

"Hotlinking" (also called "hot linking", "leeching", and "bandwidth theft") is a term referring to when a web page of one website owner is direct linking to the images or other multimedia files on the web host of another website owner (usually without permission, thus stealing bandwidth). This not only causes the other person to pay for the bandwidth of the hotlinked file, but often is intellectual property theft. The term is also used loosely (a misnomer) by free image hosts which allow you to store images on their server and allow you to direct link the hosted image files on forums or other websites (sometimes altering the image to have a watermark). One of the most common occurrences of "hot linking" is when people are forum posting and they hotlink pictures from another website to use as avatars or signature images on the messageboards (forums). Some disadvantages of hot linking worth considering are that the webpage generally loads slower when you link to images stored on a different web hosting server than the webpage is hosted on, and the owner of the image has full control to disable hotlinking, or delete, rename, or worse yet, do a "switcheroo" (i.e., switching the file name to be another image which is sure to cause the hotlinker embarrassment) of the hot-linked image.

Don't know how to attach? Use our FAQ! http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/faq.p ... tlesonly=0

Please pay attention to this posting guideline. Hotlinked posts will be deleted.

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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 10:00 pm
by minks
thanks for that I had no idea.... and great to know.

Can you tell me what my password to my other computer is ahahahaha joking I am just going to borrow LC's gun and put it out of my misery. hehehe Ok seriously thanks Tombstone good info.

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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 10:01 pm
by lady cop
thankyou boss! :yh_hugs :yh_hugs :yh_hugs

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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 10:02 pm
by minks
lady cop wrote: thankyou boss! :yh_hugs :yh_hugs :yh_hugs


we better keep bumping this one so Far sees it ahahahahahaha

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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 10:04 pm
by lady cop
minks wrote: we better keep bumping this one so Far sees it ahahahahahahayeah, well you can't have my gun. :p you're a dangerous Canadian!

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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 10:10 pm
by minks
lady cop wrote: yeah, well you can't have my gun. :p you're a dangerous Canadian!


darn :(

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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:14 pm
by AussiePam
This is my own photo on my own webserver, is it illegal to insert it? If so I'll edit it out straight away.

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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:15 pm
by minks
AussiePam wrote:

This is my own photo on my own webserver, is it illegal to insert it? If so I'll edit it out straight away.


my unprofessional answer to that is ... looks ok to me hehehehe is that you on that bike?

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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:19 pm
by AussiePam
That was just the first pic I came to Minks, but yes, I'm afraid it is me... grin. Can't remember the bloke's name... Brian possibly.

(Brian became the notional name of any bloke I even vaguely cavorted with, as I'd once typo'd something about brian overload instead of brain overload.) . Don't ask!!



Ahhhh... I did find the 'attach' function. You have to be in edit mode to see it... or at least I think you do. The pic I've now uploaded is on my own hard drive (legal, sulphyr crested cockatoos at dawn) - and is probably what Management means I gotta do. The other one is probably illegal. (Management makes me think of Carnivale - anyone follow that series"??)

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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:26 pm
by minks
AussiePam wrote: That was just the first pic I came to Minks, but yes, I'm afraid it is me... grin. Can't remember the bloke's name... Brian possibly.

(Brian became the notional name of any bloke I even vaguely cavorted with, as I'd once typo'd something about brian overload instead of brain overload.) . Don't ask!!



Ahhhh... I did find the 'attach' function. You have to be in edit mode to see it... or at least I think you do. The pic I've now uploaded is on my own hard drive (legal, sulphyr crested cockatoos at dawn) - and is probably what Management means I gotta do. The other one is probably illegal. (Management makes me think of Carnivale - anyone follow that series"??)


well my best advice if you are unsure about your pics you wish to post go into the photo posting threads or start your own one and try em and see what admin has to say. I store my pics on my computer then upload them from there. I hope they are right too.

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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:29 pm
by AussiePam
I'm sure you're doing it right Minks. Much easier to do it that way too, than to create your own graphic, then hafta ftp it onto one of your webservers, the copy the url over and insert it. Uploading direct from my own hard drive is a comparative breeze.

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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:31 pm
by minks
AussiePam wrote: I'm sure you're doing it right Minks. Much easier to do it that way too, than to create your own graphic, then hafta ftp it onto one of your webservers, the copy the url over and insert it. Uploading direct from my own hard drive is a comparative breeze.


goos stuff then we will be looking forward to more wild pics of you and all the brians hehehehehe

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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:35 pm
by Tombstone
AussiePam wrote:

This is my own photo on my own webserver, is it illegal to insert it? If so I'll edit it out straight away.


This photo is a hotlink. Yes, please make it a local file.

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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:50 pm
by AussiePam
Right, Tombstone, I'm clear now. Thank you.

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:21 am
by abbey
OMG..I'm the worlds worst, I'm hotlink champion supreme.

Oops better be careful what i say, Pina arena will want my title. :D

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:11 am
by AussiePam
Come and stand in the corner with me Abbey, and we'll sulk together. Mebbe sneak a bottle of champers with us to ease the pain some.

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:28 am
by abbey
AussiePam wrote: Come and stand in the corner with me Abbey, and we'll sulk together. Mebbe sneak a bottle of champers with us to ease the pain some.Got the Moet Pam.. oops cant post a pic :sneaky:

Yes i can.....CHEERS :D

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:53 am
by AussiePam
Gosh that looks good, Abbey. It's too hot to sleep here - must be still in the high nineties Fahrenheit. And now I'm worried that my signature graphic is hotlinked.. grin... Let's pour a couple of long cold flutes of best bubbly, then I'll go see if I can work out how you 'attach' a signature ....

...... nar, can't see how to do that - so I've dumped the graphic and reverted to text. I shall eventually get it right... wicked grin

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:07 am
by SOJOURNER
Is using tinypic.com hot linking? :confused:

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:12 am
by AussiePam
I think I've got the hang of it now Sojourner. There are lots of options available in the posting and personal settings areas which pretty much invite you to hotlink - but Management is right - it does steal bandwidth, and there can be copyright probs not to mention a lot of big graphics slow up loading in here.... I guess. Pity though.. i liked my little legal ones..... and my graphic signature

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:32 am
by SOJOURNER
To us unsavvy non-computer types even the explanations of their terms is confusing. I'd like it if they just said, don't do it this way.......... this is called blah-blah. Do it this way.

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:44 am
by AussiePam
In spite of the heat, I really am going to bed now... but .. I must say using the browse function to upload images from your hard drive is really neat. AND so is the function which automatically reduces the image to thumbnail size. You click on that to get the full size graphic. Brilliant.

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:55 am
by SOJOURNER
How hot is it by you?

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:37 am
by chonsigirl
Oh, I hotlink them all the time-that's where the kitty came from.

But I try not to blow the margins.

Then I attached the file.

I figure, by the time the link is broken, it is weeks, months or years. Who is reading my old posts anyway?

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:39 am
by Rapunzel
abbey wrote: OMG..I'm the worlds worst, I'm hotlink champion supreme.

Oops better be careful what i say, Pina arena will want my title.


hmmmmm.... I do tend to do dat too :-3 but in my case its not a hotlink exactly, more of a warm connection *ahem* :D hehehe

Sorry bout dat folks! :rolleyes: ;) I need my bottom smacked! (woohoo!)

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:40 am
by chonsigirl
Oh, what a student you must have been! Your teachers must have adored you, Snooze.:-4

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:51 am
by chonsigirl
Tombstone, may we have some web space allotted to us, so we can upload images we want to use in our posting-in lieu of so much hotlinking?

Not the kind that attachment do, because then we have to attach it first0anywhere-to have it where we really want it.

That won't work.

But some webspace, is that an option?

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 6:15 am
by theia
As you probably realise from my plain posts I haven't got a clue what hot linking etc. means. But what I have noticed is that if several very large images are posted on a forum page, it takes so much longer to scroll up and down. The scrolling slows right down over the image and then speeds up again. Am I completely on the wrong track? If so, just ignore me :wah:

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:00 am
by orpheus
Sorry folks..........:-3 ..........wont do it again. :-2

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:43 am
by chonsigirl
I would have never guessed!:rolleyes:

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:07 pm
by Nomad
I still dont understand. How will I know definitively if its a hotlinked pic or not ?

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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:09 pm
by AussiePam
G'day JAB, Nomad - I'm still trying to find out whether FG has its own jailhouse???

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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:29 pm
by ForumGarden
Nomad wrote: I still dont understand. How will I know definitively if its a hotlinked pic or not ?


It can't be hotlinked if you upload the image by using "Manage Attachments" when you create your post.

HOTLINKED = image or graphic being pulled from ANOTHER place other than ForumGarden.

NOT-HOTLINKED = image is uploaded and stored on ForumGarden. Image is local to ForumGarden.

How? Use "MANAGE ATTACHMENTS."

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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 6:27 pm
by BabyRider
"First" posting rule my BUTT. We aren't allowed to mess with spammers anymore, either. :yh_rotfl

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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:39 pm
by AussiePam
OMG Guys - literally !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT WAS THE HEAD GARDENER - Himself / Herself

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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:19 pm
by Helen
i am totally computor illiterate.

tombstone,

that was as easy for me to understand as un ravelling spaggettie !!:-2:-3:o:D

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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:32 pm
by spot
That was written by the Tombstone we had before the one that was fired last Christmas. It's a really really old thread and he was a really really old Tombstone. We've had four or five since the site started, the title gets passed on as the site's inherited by beneficiaries. Except the second Tombstone, I think he got the site over a poker table.

The current one's some college kid with freckles who's so heavily into his Extraterrestrial Biology major that he doesn't log in from one week to the next. Maybe we'll see him post when the new term starts but these days he's in the library all his spare time.

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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 3:37 pm
by Bryn Mawr
spot;940453 wrote: That was written by the Tombstone we had before the one that was fired last Christmas. It's a really really old thread and he was a really really old Tombstone. We've had four or five since the site started, the title gets passed on as the site's inherited by beneficiaries. Except the second Tombstone, I think he got the site over a poker table.

The current one's some college kid with freckles who's so heavily into his Extraterrestrial Biology major that he doesn't log in from one week to the next. Maybe we'll see him post when the new term starts but these days he's in the library all his spare time.


:yh_rotfl

One of these days you'll get yourself excommunicated :p

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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:24 pm
by G#Gill
bump

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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:00 pm
by Nomad
Bryn Mawr;940566 wrote: :yh_rotfl



One of these days you'll get yourself excommunicated :p


Working on that.......

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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:53 pm
by Bryn Mawr
Nomad;940660 wrote: Working on that.......


Ever since I joined here you've been working on that :wah:

Here's to many more years of trying :-6

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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:19 am
by Nomad
Im actually quite fond of our little spocky.

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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:35 pm
by G#Gill
bump !!