christopherwoods
15th October 2006, 06:46 AM
... So, what gives? I'm quite an emoticonny person, I don't spam them all over the place but I tend to use five or six if I'm writing a long reply, maybe a few more if I'm in a very good/exciteable mood :rolleyes: (I feel it helps convey the context better, because text is such a stale, unforgiving medium when it comes to misunderstandings and misinterpretations).
Also, there's been threads in the past where I've posted big long replies including multiple (offsite) linked images, which, were I to attempt this again, would be impossible. I understand about the feature cobbled on which allows you to upload large images to the post or repy and then reference them with square brackets, but I have this "thing" about not using that feature, as you can never tell if they're going to disappear or the forum's going to be upgraded or modified and all the pictures lost - when I host my pictures on my web host on my little corner of the Internet, I can guarantee that they'll be available there for pretty much as long as I'm still alive and paying the hosting bills. Plus they're my pictures, I'll host them - that's why I don't use flickr for storage of my thousands of photos, I'd rather do it myself so I have total control.
Ideally, I'd like to see this limit removed, deactivated or at least raised to a higher number (10 or 15), or maybe removing the restriction just for people who've donated, because I can see it causing problems in the future for people like me who might need to illustrate a long reply or guide to setting something up / tweaking some system settings with multiple screengrabs to highlight every major step.
I don't know what other people think, but I can't really see any reason for an imagel imit - if someone goes and spams a forum thread with three hundred pictures, they can be given a warning or banned from posting new replies for x amount of time, just imposing a blanket limit on every user seems a bit pointless to me.
However, in the scope of XDADevs I'm naught more than an 'orrible little luser - anybody else have any of their own opinions they'd like to add to this?
Also, there's been threads in the past where I've posted big long replies including multiple (offsite) linked images, which, were I to attempt this again, would be impossible. I understand about the feature cobbled on which allows you to upload large images to the post or repy and then reference them with square brackets, but I have this "thing" about not using that feature, as you can never tell if they're going to disappear or the forum's going to be upgraded or modified and all the pictures lost - when I host my pictures on my web host on my little corner of the Internet, I can guarantee that they'll be available there for pretty much as long as I'm still alive and paying the hosting bills. Plus they're my pictures, I'll host them - that's why I don't use flickr for storage of my thousands of photos, I'd rather do it myself so I have total control.
Ideally, I'd like to see this limit removed, deactivated or at least raised to a higher number (10 or 15), or maybe removing the restriction just for people who've donated, because I can see it causing problems in the future for people like me who might need to illustrate a long reply or guide to setting something up / tweaking some system settings with multiple screengrabs to highlight every major step.
I don't know what other people think, but I can't really see any reason for an imagel imit - if someone goes and spams a forum thread with three hundred pictures, they can be given a warning or banned from posting new replies for x amount of time, just imposing a blanket limit on every user seems a bit pointless to me.
However, in the scope of XDADevs I'm naught more than an 'orrible little luser - anybody else have any of their own opinions they'd like to add to this?