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rushfan4

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Posted: June 12 2008 at 18:44

As Micky once told me, you don't really become fully initiated to the forums until you have a post removed for inappropriate content.

Sorry Dean, don't mean to encourage additional work for the Admins.

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Posted: June 15 2008 at 06:04

To darqDean (or anyone else) - you say find out how to post pictures. I've tried hard hard but I just can't figure it Confused

Please - how do you do it?

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Posted: June 15 2008 at 06:09

Here's a thread: How Do I post Pictures?

And let me quote one of our admin's post from that thread:

Tony R wrote:

First two important points to remember:

1. Picture content: The forum administrators have made it known that no pornographic, unsuitable or copyrighted images, cartoons or gif animations should be posted on the site-failure to comply with this could result in expulsion from the forum.

2. You cannot (at the moment) cut/copy and paste directly from your Pc. I advise joining an on-line "imagestation" like Photobucket or Sony Imagestation. Photobucket accepts Gif animation uploads whereas Sony only permits Jpegs.

For the purpose of this guide I will describe posting images using Photobucket.

Photobucket : http://photobucket.com/ is free to join and remains free if you only want to use up to 50 mb of storage space (about 200 average photos and Gifs).Fill in the registration form and away you go.

Images From Your Computer:

In the "Your" Album area of Photobucket click "browse" and select the image you want to upload from the folder on your PC.Click submit and after a short while (depending on you connection speed) the image will appear in the "album." Beneath the image you will see 'URL', 'TAG' and 'IMAGE'.Click in the box next to URl and it will highlight in blue. Right-Click and click "copy".

Next we are going to post the image on the forum.

In the 'Post Reply' box click this button:. An 'Insert Image' box appears. Click in the 'Image URL' box and clear the contents.Right-click and click 'paste' and the address of the image (which you copied in Photobucket) will appear. Click 'OK' and the image should appear in the box.
Note: the image will only appear if you have the full address of the image including "http:"

Images From The Web:

To post an image from the web right-click the image and click 'properties'. Find the text that says 'Address URL' and highlight the address starting "http:" (double left-click and it will turn blue) right-click and click 'copy.'
In the post reply box follow the instructions above under:Next we are going to post the image on the forum.

You can also put these web images in Photobucket by clicking "[ Add pictures from URL ] " in the Add Pictures area of "Your Album"

This is by no means the definitive way to do this and some pictures on the web will copy and paste directly into the forum.It is, however, the way I do it and it works for me

Edited by Tuzvihar - June 15 2008 at 06:12

"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

Charles Bukowski

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Posted: June 15 2008 at 06:11

Another post from that thread showing one more way to post a picture:

Tony R wrote:

Another simple way to post pictures from the Internet:

Right click on the picture/graphic and select "properties". Where it says address highlight the info which starts "http" eg (try on zacs sig pic above)http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b51/zacm1587/magnus2.jpg
(to highlight the full address left-click anywhere in the address then double-click to select all the info) with the text highlighted in blue right-click and select "copy".
Now in the post reply box or wherever you want to post the image do the following (IGNORING THE " " s)
type:
"["IMG"]"
after the last ] press CTRL on your keyboard and V to paste the address(Ctrl+V),then type "["/img"]" (of course without the " )

Like this:

Your image should appear eg

"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

Charles Bukowski

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Posted: June 15 2008 at 06:14

One more thing: to get

button you must enter the full reply box by clicking

"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

Charles Bukowski

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Posted: June 15 2008 at 12:35

It's really dangerous to let folks know how to link to pictures. I am a prime example.

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Posted: June 20 2008 at 16:17

I think I've managed it, but I'm not that good at it yet!

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Posted: June 20 2008 at 16:20

Thanks folks for the advice!

Now I've managed that - how do I do that thing where I include comments from previous posts so I can discuss them better?

Trouble is - I think that's a little dangerous (taking things out of context and all that!)

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Posted: June 20 2008 at 16:26

PinkPangolin wrote:

Smile

You just hit the [ Quote PinkPangolin

Quote] button at the top of the post and edit away. The forum is driven by BBcode, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode), so if you want to split up a quote you have to insert your own code to to that

Edited by darqDean - June 20 2008 at 16:28

What?

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Posted: June 20 2008 at 18:32

You just hit the [ Quote PinkPangolin

Quote] button at the top of the post and edit away.

Like this?

Thanks Dean - you've come up trumps again!

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Posted: June 20 2008 at 18:33

Oh - that didn't work...

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Posted: June 20 2008 at 18:52

PinkPangolin wrote:

You just hit the [ Quote PinkPangolin

Quote] button at the top of the post and edit away.

Like this?

Thanks Dean - you've come up trumps again!

don't delete all the extra text (all the stuff in square brackets is needed!)

it should look like this, but with [ ] instead of ( )

(QUOTE=PinkPangolin) (QUOTE=darqDean)

You just hit the [ Quote PinkPangolin

Quote] button at the top of the post and edit away.
(/QUOTE)

Like this?

Thanks Dean - you've come up turnips again!

(/QUOTE)

...whatever is between QUOTE & /QUOTE is the quoted text - your relpy goes outside that.

Edited by darqDean - June 20 2008 at 18:55

What?

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Posted: June 21 2008 at 05:19

darqDean wrote:

PinkPangolin wrote:

You just hit the [ Quote PinkPangolin

Quote] button at the top of the post and edit away.

Like this?

Thanks Dean - you've come up trumps again!

don't delete all the extra text (all the stuff in square brackets is needed!)

it should look like this, but with [ ] instead of ( )

(QUOTE=PinkPangolin) (QUOTE=darqDean)

You just hit the [ Quote PinkPangolin

Quote] button at the top of the post and edit away.
(/QUOTE)

Like this?

Thanks Dean - you've come up turnips again!

(/QUOTE)

...whatever is between QUOTE & /QUOTE is the quoted text - your relpy goes outside that.

Here's another try then - still dangerous how you change someone's else's wording - oh wait - that might be quite fun... Wink

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Posted: June 21 2008 at 07:11

^ that's the way

Incidentally - you should NEVER change someone else's wording (unless you make it obvious and it's for comedic effect) - the purpose of quoting is to carry-on a discourse in a thread that has multiple discussions going-on, or to single-out specific points to comment upon. Changing what people have written to make them look bad or stupid or to alter the meanig will be dealt with swiftly and punitively.

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Posted: July 22 2008 at 23:53

KoS wrote:

^ Step two
find the Hot Babes thread

Found it!

Nope. Lost it.

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Posted: August 24 2008 at 19:14

What's happened to my thread - it seems to have gone below the belt!

Anyway - I seem to have been uprated to Senior Member now - having cleared 100 posts (they weren't all pointless - honest!)

I'm surprised it was only 100 (thought it would be a lot more than that, but I'm not knocking it). I guess some of you are thinking - what? HE doesn't deserve that....

Thanks for all your help from you chaps above.

Trouble this - this thread doesn't make any sense now, because I note that on all my posts I have been uprated to Senior member. I mean - eh? Why is this senior guy moaning about being a "Noobie?"

Pinky

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Posted: August 24 2008 at 19:16

I'll happily delete this thread if that's whats needed to bring some sense to it....

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Posted: August 24 2008 at 19:23

Dean wrote:

Incidentally - you should ALWAYS change someone else's wording (unless you make it obvious and it's for an annoying effect)

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Posted: August 24 2008 at 19:27

rushfan4 wrote:

As Micky once told me, you don't really become fully initiated to the forums until you have a post removed for inappropriate content.

yep.. .I think I could have made senior member alone based on that LOL

.... I have had a few... I am a bad boy sometimes.

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Posted: August 24 2008 at 19:31

Dean wrote:

Changing what people have written ... to alter the meaning will be dealt with swiftly and punitively.

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