NationStates Jolt Archive

here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13365127&postcount=34)

He changed it.

yeah, please disregard. He didn't realize what it was.

Aw, c'mon, I never make mistakes, why should other people get away with 'em? :D

No probs, from the times recorded it's plain he fixed it up as soon as he could.

EDIT: Another case of "I'm sure I read it somewhere in the rules, but I can't find it now." So I'll just have to say it, for anyone who wonders what all the fuss was about:

Thou Shalt Not Hotlink

And, for those who are as innocent as I was before a hotlink happened on another site I frequent ...

"Hotlinking" is when you link directly to a site to show a pic, but the site owner objects to this practice (it costs him money). He has therefore set things up so that the image you link to will look fine to you, but to others on your target site it will show up as something gross, usually sufficient to get you deleted from a forum or in major trouble at school or work.

To avoid hotlinking, make sure all pics you show on NS are first loaded onto a neutral site that hosts pics, like flikr or photobucket.

I'm sure most of you know this by now, but http://imageshack.us/ allows image posting without the trouble of creating an account. Also, they have a nice Thumbnail feature for larger pics, and they allow (hell, encourage) linking.

Their servers are a bit flaky at times, but you can't argue with an utterly free service.

I'm sure most of you know this by now, but http://imageshack.us/ allows image posting without the trouble of creating an account.Not everywhere. Another forum I'm on doesn't display them, though this might well be because of the forum settings. You get a little image of a golden toad telling you hotlinking is disabled for the domain.

Hm. Well, imageshack usually works. And, if all else fails, just do a google search for "free image hosting".

I use Imagecave.


Other people use Photobucket (but they set you with a specific bandwith)


Those are just two others that I know of.