| Warning on posting pics
If you want to post an image to chronicles from elsewhere on the internet, try to avoid posting a direct image link, and instead try to upload the image to chronicles.
Why this is an important issue
If you simply post a direct image link to an image on another person's server, they can swap the original image for something else.
A common tactic is to swap a harmless image for very gross pornographic images - the sort you really wished you hadn't seen. This happened in one of the threads last night.
This happens because people viewing the image on this site are using up the server resources on the other site, and some people hate that. It's a process called "hotlinking".
Recommended procedure:
1. Right click on the image and "save as", saving it to your own computer harddrive
2. If posting in reply, use the "Go advanced" posting option instead of the quick reply
3. Beneath the posting area there's a button - manage attachments - click on that
4. Now select the image from your PC to upload, and click on upload
You should now have posted the image directly to the chronicles server.
Hope that helps - any questions, feel free to ask. |