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  March 27, 2010 8:22 p.m. MrJoshua SuperDork

  Explain?

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  March 27, 2010 8:29 p.m. Jensenman SuperDork

  My, my. Are we having a bad day?

  Love,

  Schmucky the Clown

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  March 27, 2010 8:31 p.m. VanillaSky Reader

  It's where you right click > copy image location and paste that into a post.

  It does drive up the google page rank of the hosting site. I don't think it's such a bad trade-off.

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  March 27, 2010 8:39 p.m. Josh Dork

  As long as we don't get inadvertently goatse'd or something, who cares? Are you also lobbying google to take down Image Search? Because that's basically a massive internet-wide image hotlinking machine.

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  March 27, 2010 8:46 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

  technically, we should not do it... but for an image that we will never see again and will quickly get buried after being viewed 40 times?

  Non-Sequitor Alert!

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  March 27, 2010 8:55 p.m. Wally SuperDork

  

  A little stupid goes a long way

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  March 27, 2010 9:03 p.m. carguy123 SuperDork

  Well if they allowed us to just post the picture to the forum that would stop all of that and be easier besides.

  "mobilito ergo sum" I drive therefore I am!

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  March 27, 2010 9:03 p.m. DILYSI Dave SuperDork

  
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  March 27, 2010 9:04 p.m. petegossett SuperDork

  I've never exactly figured out how to post pics on GRM anyway, it seems like sometimes it works & sometimes not. Other times I have to screw around with the HTML and then sometimes it shows up in the preview pane but not after I post???

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  March 27, 2010 9:07 p.m. DILYSI Dave SuperDork

  petegossett wrote: I've never exactly figured out how to post pics on GRM anyway, it seems like sometimes it works & sometimes not. Other times I have to screw around with the HTML and then sometimes it shows up in the preview pane but not after I post???

  hit return after you generate the link. That seems to work for me.

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  March 27, 2010 9:18 p.m. Grtechguy SuperDork

  If the forums ops really care, they can toggle the "non-hotlinking" option

  There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit

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  March 27, 2010 9:28 p.m. alex Dork

  Rough Friday, Mr. IT Guy?

  The only two things in life that make it worth livin' are guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women.

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  March 27, 2010 9:33 p.m. racerfink Reader

  So, save a pic to your HD that isn't yours, then post it to a pic site WHERE THEY WILL ASK YOU IF THE PIC YOU'RE UPLOADING IS YOURS, then use that link? Gotcha.

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  March 27, 2010 9:41 p.m. Trans_Maro Dork

  Lighten up Francis.

  Sometimes life leaves a hundred dollar bill on your dresser, and you don't realize until later that it's because it screwed you.

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  March 27, 2010 9:42 p.m. wbjones HalfDork

  I'm there with "petegossett" 'cept in my case I've never gotten a pic to come up on this forum

  not the forums fault ... it/they can't help that I'm a luddite.. not really... just this puter stuff sometimes doesn't make as much sense as other times...

  understeer: when you hit the wall with the front end,,, oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back end.... horsepower: how hard you hit that wall.... torque: how far you drag that wall

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  March 27, 2010 9:51 p.m. Tommy Suddard SonDork

  

  'cause we're aliens, and thats how we roll.

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  March 27, 2010 9:52 p.m. MrJoshua SuperDork

  aleeya.net needs to learn to advertise (or just quit hosting such cool pictures )

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  March 27, 2010 9:53 p.m. Tommy Suddard SonDork

  Sorry Joshua, found a better one to steal bandwidth from.

  'cause we're aliens, and thats how we roll.

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  March 27, 2010 10:02 p.m. MrJoshua SuperDork

  Tommy Suddard wrote: Sorry Joshua, found a better one to steal bandwidth from.

  I won't complain about that one.

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  March 27, 2010 10:03 p.m. pete240z Dork

  I can rebuild a 4-barrel Holley but I kinda understand what this guy is talking about. Kinda.

  Really I have no clue what stealing bandwidth is.......

  Current disposable income is going towards University Costs for Junior.

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  March 27, 2010 10:12 p.m. Trans_Maro Dork

  

  Hotlinked hot links!

  Sometimes life leaves a hundred dollar bill on your dresser, and you don't realize until later that it's because it screwed you.

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  March 27, 2010 11:01 p.m. RedS13Coupe Reader

  Your typical picture posted on a forum is like what, 300kbs?

  A multiple page thread that has been going on for a few days on sites way bigger then this generate about 150 views of that thread. Of which many are repeated, so the image is viewed off the persons cache with out downloading it again. So say an 125 as being a VERY ambitious number for the times that image is downloaded by viewers of the thread... After all threads seem to be the same handful of people going back and forth with another small pile of loos. I would guess it to be more realistically 50 or so unique connections.

  Still, assuming that it IS 125 different people that is a total of 37.5 mb of bandwidth. What host of multimedia content honestly finds 37.5mbs of bandwidth over multiple days to be excessive? Especially when it advertises their site, and drives their URL up the list of search results?

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  March 27, 2010 11:19 p.m. oldsaw Dork

  RedS13Coupe wrote: Your typical picture posted on a forum is like what, 300kbs? A multiple page thread that has been going on for a few days on sites way bigger then this generate about 150 views of that thread. Of which many are repeated, so the image is viewed off the persons cache with out downloading it again. So say an 125 as being a VERY ambitious number for the times that image is downloaded by viewers of the thread... After all threads seem to be the same handful of people going back and forth with another small pile of loos. I would guess it to be more realistically 50 or so unique connections. Still, assuming that it IS 125 different people that is a total of 37.5 mb of bandwidth. What host of multimedia content honestly finds 37.5mbs of bandwidth over multiple days to be excessive? Especially when it advertises their site, and drives their URL up the list of search results?

  So, basically, you're suggesting that the OP get a grip?

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  March 27, 2010 11:23 p.m. friedgreencorrado Dork

  Trans_Maro wrote: Lighten up Francis.

  

  How can it be a midlife crisis, when I've driven sportscars my entire life?

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  March 27, 2010 11:33 p.m. aussiesmg SuperDork

  Did the wife say no Jeff?

  Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax. Jackie Stewart

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