Disable picture posting privilage in Other?

Should we? It is a useful tool in places like Games, but do we need it here in "Other"?

If we keep it, are we going to use it responsibly?

Comments, Feedback?

Scuba steve, whats up?

Do me one favor...give me a small hint on what is and isn't allowed. I honestly dont want to a whole trial and error...i assume keeping it PG-13 or lower is alright?

Steve are you serious?

*crowd goes wild as the Devil's Advocate enter's the ring*

I know you didn't like my big bold and beautiful picture but odds are that if we put it to a vote most people would call it work safe. I doubt anyone would consider that so bad as to be edited out. I don't remember what image that was that you removed but it was no worse than this one. http://www.fat-people.net/images/obese_woman.jpg, and although I don't find that woman very appealing I think it goes against freedom of speech to start censoring something so benign. I was simply posting that picture for shock value. I can't imagine it hurting or offending anyone. I've seen fatter women walking down the street wearing a leotard and I don't recall anyone trying to cover her with a sheet or dragging their children away.

I have to say something here since if we start editing something like this and calling into question even having pictures in this section, then I start to wonder what will be next. We have some outrageous conversations in here and the last thing we need is a hard censoring hand. If we go down that road then people will want to censor our religious and political debates since those can get highly heated and somebody always ends up getting salty. Maybe Wingy will be on the chopping block since his stories are far worse than that fat picture. I don't mean to tread in the slipery slope realm but I'd rather speak up now since it was my picture that got edited out. A picture might be worth a thousand words but they're not that bad. We police ourselves very well here. Many of us have screwed up before by posting a link to something that wasn't work safe without saying something and people do pipe up quick and say something. Poor Phial has screwed up and clicked on bad links at work more times than I can count but I've never heard anyone suggest getting rid of URL tags in this section.

The solution is simple. We're not posting porn or decapitated bodies. When things are questionable we can post them as URL rather than IMG.

My two cents at least.

I don't remember it being a feature and if it was pulled down it would most likely have been a bandwidth issue. They had it on the German forum but the traffic there appeared to be less.

There once was some kind of error where we had pictures for a day or so but we didn't do anything bad other than use an insane amount of bandwidth.

Is this bad DH?
Its my desktop.....I am just getting a feel of what is good and whats bad.






Should i have scaled this?

What monitor do you have?

This site has an amazing collection of art pictures.

http://www.photo.net/gallery/photocritique/filter

There's some really nice work in here as far as I'm concerned. If you filter it by SUM you'll get mostly nude female works. They're beautiful. Editing something like that would be a crime although in some of those pictures you might want to give the guys at work a shot at avoiding them.

I've seen my monitor go in the $700 range. Still a grip of money but I justified it as a present to myself for moving to L.A. and considering that I spend a lot of time on the PC it only made sense.

The 2005fpw is awesome too though and I've seen it in the $300 range.

I like the SUM filter since it gives a lot of everything. If you're good with PS you should pull some stuff from there. I was hoping I could get some good wallpapers but the images are too small and I'm too lazy to edit something.

3 posts in 1 min? I'm getting slow. I used to be so much better.

Adriana Lima?

On the site I gave you?

2 of these would be absolute insanity. I suppose it would be great for content creation but forget games.

Well about 75-80% of the time i have a movie, tv show, or something running on one screen and i am surfing the web and chatting on trillian on the other. So i would want to keep that the same. And having a 2405 for movies and then a crappy CRT for web/IM would be rediculous.

I started to think about 2 2405's so i walked away from the whole purchase all together...lol

Let's just see how responsible the other community is, before disabling it. If things are not work safe, you won't be seeing a lot of me anymore.

May i ask why?
I mean to each his own but i am curious if you mean to remove everything to make it work safe, or to make it easier for dialup, or what are you looking for.

Yeah it worked without pictures and everything, and cars worked without power steering, automatic trans, and other features.....

I am not trying to change your thoughts....just curious as to the origin

You got a point there.

It's very hard to browse threads with slow connection, if there's 4-5 big pictures (especially since many people don't compress pictures properly). With links, I can see only the picture I want to see. There's no chance of NSFW pics by any means, and IMO text-only forum looks cleaner and better.

The problem is that almost nobody uses dialup anymore.

I asked if it was possible to have it as a user option to enable/disable showing images though. That might be good for both you and Auburn.

Knowing many of the people down here (and for once I am not talking about RobD, Auburn, or Wingy), I know this could get us in trouble... I am hoping that anything that is posted is good, and if something bad is posted, that people will warn us beforehand... But I say for now, leave it...

While you are rediscovering the web, why don't you discover the "Load images"(Tools/Options/Web Features) function that is set as default, but can be turned off? It will render the forum well enough to be usable and leave a place holder to be clicked if you choose.

I want to see the forums without missing layout pictures, and I don't want to turn on-off pics often.

DH has the best idea. There should be a "display pics in post" option in the profile, and people who turned it off will see only the links of the posted pictures.

What does that mean, huh dh?

It's only 1.8 KB (1839 bytes). Even with 300bps modem, it wouldn't take more than 7 seconds to download


I thought you were using a morse system, and had to decode all the bits yourself.

I think it'll be up to the moderators to apply the final word, and to be strict. Censorship works only if you use a rational perception. What can be applied to the most people will usually work. PG-13 as some said is an example. I don't know many users under that age anyways. Hopefully that will deter anyone from trying to put something disgusting or just not suitable for the younger audience.

Psssst

Did noone tell ya that the regular bunny sigs are not done anymore?

Nice Matrix look in your avatar btw

Dude, I swear I never even thought about Neo while having this pic taken!

But thanks anyways!

I wouldn't mind a separate other section, which has picture posting enabled while this other would then have the option disabled.