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What some do is to use a third party photo service (I use Flicker, for now as it's been sold..) then type in the link avoiding a real link nomenclature.
Patience grasshopper. Ask questions on other's posts, Post about tooling or such. Engage others and you'll get to that threshold soon enough. Andy
Patience grasshopper. Ask questions on other's posts, Post about tooling or such. Engage others and you'll get to that threshold soon enough. Andy
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But they can't be junk posts or nonsense posts that just litter the forums. Have a little patience and explore all of Bike Forums. Enjoy!
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Hi, welcome to Bike Forums. Ok, so you need 10 posts, we understand, but there's a better way to get to 10 without littering up the forums with junk posts. Posting your image will have to wait 2 or 3 days, that's all. Instead of junk posts, take some time and patiently visit other parts of the forum. Amongst all the threads you encounter I'm sure you can find some topics of interest where you can share some meaningful thoughts. You just need five of those the first day and another five posts the second day, and you've reached your 10.
But they can't be junk posts or nonsense posts that just litter the forums. Have a little patience and explore all of Bike Forums. Enjoy!
But they can't be junk posts or nonsense posts that just litter the forums. Have a little patience and explore all of Bike Forums. Enjoy!
If forum "litter" is such a problem, then it keeps admins busy doing their jobs rather than dictating and being inclusive. It's 2018 and good and healthy communities are working on trying to be more open and helpful, kind of thinking out of the box for folks needs, rather than inclusion.
Just my personal thoughts since it is frustrating trying to communicate in the first 48 hours...especially when someone has a new toy and has tons of questions that you make them wait 2 days...
But to each it's own.
Hope this wasn't "trash" that clutters your electronic cyber space reality
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Hi, welcome to Bike Forums. Ok, so you need 10 posts, we understand, but there's a better way to get to 10 without littering up the forums with junk posts. Posting your image will have to wait 2 or 3 days, that's all. Instead of junk posts, take some time and patiently visit other parts of the forum. Amongst all the threads you encounter I'm sure you can find some topics of interest where you can share some meaningful thoughts. You just need five of those the first day and another five posts the second day, and you've reached your 10.
But they can't be junk posts or nonsense posts that just litter the forums. Have a little patience and explore all of Bike Forums. Enjoy!
But they can't be junk posts or nonsense posts that just litter the forums. Have a little patience and explore all of Bike Forums. Enjoy!
Go to the Advanced editor and click on the paper clip (Attachnents).
I'm not quite sure what all the new updates brought, but it is worth trying.
Also keep in mind that newbies can only post 5 messages a day... so use them wisely.
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I find that boring too. Especially, I've used to write a nice introduction with pictures of my bikes. But I couldn't post it. May be that the Introduction sub forum could be OK to post images even for newbees.
+1 post... 5 to come !!!
+1 post... 5 to come !!!
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Such a shame. Really takes the wind out of your sails to participate with all the problems trying to post. I reach my 10 posts and now they have another quota of 5 posts per day and I still can't communicate effectively.
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Such a shame. Really takes the wind out of your sails to participate with all the problems trying to post. I reach my 10 posts and now they have another quota of 5 posts per day and I still can't communicate effectively.
Not even worth the hassles and growing pains with 2018 technology.
Amazing how much folks and communities shoot themselves in their own foot with a little power
Have a great day!
Not even worth the hassles and growing pains with 2018 technology.
Amazing how much folks and communities shoot themselves in their own foot with a little power
Have a great day!
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It does cause a few people not to participate, because a lot of people want to post a picture or link for their first post. Unfortunately, so do spammers. This forum has some of the least spam of any I participate on, and that takes a lot of work. Limitations on new members are really common on forums. Particularly forums that don't have a lot of spam.
You can turn off emails from your profile.
You can turn off emails from your profile.
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I think the idea of no links in the first few posts is just fine.
Maybe some warning before users get locked out on their 5th post?
Photos, on the other hand, are an important part of the forum. So many "mechanics" issues are best served with photos. For example, determining the difference between freewheels and freehubs, looking at wear, chain routing, etc.
Bike appraisals?
Does the old method of loading photos as attachments still work for newbies? It is a little counter-intuitive of a system, but had worked for them in the past.
Maybe some warning before users get locked out on their 5th post?
Photos, on the other hand, are an important part of the forum. So many "mechanics" issues are best served with photos. For example, determining the difference between freewheels and freehubs, looking at wear, chain routing, etc.
Bike appraisals?
Does the old method of loading photos as attachments still work for newbies? It is a little counter-intuitive of a system, but had worked for them in the past.
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A lot of familiar features are still being ironed out in the recent upgrade, so I can't say for sure. Photo posting is one of the big issues.
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I think the idea of no links in the first few posts is just fine.
Maybe some warning before users get locked out on their 5th post?
Photos, on the other hand, are an important part of the forum. So many "mechanics" issues are best served with photos. For example, determining the difference between freewheels and freehubs, looking at wear, chain routing, etc.
Bike appraisals?
Does the old method of loading photos as attachments still work for newbies? It is a little counter-intuitive of a system, but had worked for them in the past.
Maybe some warning before users get locked out on their 5th post?
Photos, on the other hand, are an important part of the forum. So many "mechanics" issues are best served with photos. For example, determining the difference between freewheels and freehubs, looking at wear, chain routing, etc.
Bike appraisals?
Does the old method of loading photos as attachments still work for newbies? It is a little counter-intuitive of a system, but had worked for them in the past.
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However, the new system appears to be uploading images as an external hyperlink to: https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/.
Part of the issue is that the newbie filter doesn't differentiate between [url=...]...[/url] and [img]...[/img]. I presume the URLs are the problem with SPAM, and not the images.
With the previous method of uploading images as attachments, some newbies were successfully able to upload images (as they didn't show up as hyperlinks).
So far I haven.t seen any confirmations that newbies are able to use the new image upload system, so I presume it is still being slammed by the URL filter.
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Such a shame. Really takes the wind out of your sails to participate with all the problems trying to post. I reach my 10 posts and now they have another quota of 5 posts per day and I still can't communicate effectively.
Not even worth the hassles and growing pains with 2018 technology.
Amazing how much folks and communities shoot themselves in their own foot with a little power
Have a great day!
Not even worth the hassles and growing pains with 2018 technology.
Amazing how much folks and communities shoot themselves in their own foot with a little power
Have a great day!
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Removed...wasn't appropriate and apologized to admin.
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Oh you mean like the bull**** spam messages I am continually getting from your website now, even though I have had to come back repeatedly to figure out how to get your website to stop spamming my email box with quotes going on and on with your hypocritical nonsense?? I have even asked in the forum to delete my account or do whatever it is that needs to be done to make it stop...
Yet here I am trying to figure out how to get your website to stop spamming me...
So much for the Golden Rule in life huh?? We don't like spam, but screw anyone else that we spam.
Always a pleasure dealing with something that is not only capable of being honest with others, but is a hypocrite in the process of doing so.
Please set your evil machine empire to stop spamming my email box...
Pretty please? Is begging enough for you?
Yet here I am trying to figure out how to get your website to stop spamming me...
So much for the Golden Rule in life huh?? We don't like spam, but screw anyone else that we spam.
Always a pleasure dealing with something that is not only capable of being honest with others, but is a hypocrite in the process of doing so.
Please set your evil machine empire to stop spamming my email box...
Pretty please? Is begging enough for you?
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I'll have to check that out more later, but for now, that is a huge resource hog, and very disagreeable with my laptop.
However, the new system appears to be uploading images as an external hyperlink to:
Part of the issue is that the newbie filter doesn't differentiate between [url=...]...[/url] and [img]...[/img]. I presume the URLs are the problem with SPAM, and not the images.
With the previous method of uploading images as attachments, some newbies were successfully able to upload images (as they didn't show up as hyperlinks).
So far I haven.t seen any confirmations that newbies are able to use the new image upload system, so I presume it is still being slammed by the URL filter.
However, the new system appears to be uploading images as an external hyperlink to:
Part of the issue is that the newbie filter doesn't differentiate between [url=...]...[/url] and [img]...[/img]. I presume the URLs are the problem with SPAM, and not the images.
With the previous method of uploading images as attachments, some newbies were successfully able to upload images (as they didn't show up as hyperlinks).
So far I haven.t seen any confirmations that newbies are able to use the new image upload system, so I presume it is still being slammed by the URL filter.
Lol, it wouldn't even let me quote your URL in your post.
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Even for the presentations forum (where you may want to post a picture of your bike), you get this limit. So you can't introduce yourself properly.