Posting Images - Members please read

After 6 (yes a real number) that is six PM's regarding images in posts here is a bump to this important announcement.

The Team had decided in order to best serve the widest range of members who are either on old connections or using smart phones to connect to the board - 1 image per post would be best.

we found out shortly afterwards that this also increased the post count, gave Google more to look at and find, and in the end these Google hits bring in now members, and more information.

Granted the loss of 90K posts when the old site went down hurt us profoundly, however keeping this method up has certainly helped us get back into the search engines.

i have been PMing multiple members in relation to this rule and have asked politely, firmly, heck i even let the Yankee in me out on a couple of them. and still we area unable to get folks to comply.

I have explained that all posts not in compliance will be removed with out notification or warning..

Thanks Bear for posting this. Hope this is one less thing you and the Mod team have to worry about.

by using a 3rd party host such as Picasa or Photobucket and posting it directly.. this how to may help

stampbears.proboards.com/thread/327/post-images-image-heavy

this has come up a number of times....

here is how we will proceed.

if the post requires side by side comparison we will permit a limited number of these posts with up to 4 images.

long posts of 5 or more images MUST be broken up..

we will try this for the time being however if this does not work out well we will revert to the standard policy.

OK, thanks Bear!

I had actually combined 2 images side-by-side into 1 image. I will definitely limit myself to 1 image file per post.

Thanks again for the clarification.

you would have to Water mark them on your host (we dont have the add on since we do not host the images)..

Keep in mind if you remove an image on a 3rd party host it automatically removes the image here leaving a lot of blank spaces. because of the time involved in replacing broken images we often find it much easier to remove the dead post and have you re-post them..

please let us know if this is the case.

At least one member finds much greater enjoyment from unwatermarked pictures.