Diamondbacks Bullpen

Admin · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 12:32 am Post subject: The use of pictures

Can I request that people rein in the use of pictures please? There is really no point in using a large, irrelevant photo to accompany a four word post like "Nice walk by Byrnesie." This degrades the response time for all users, because the server keeps having to request pictures from other sites in order to create a page, rather than being able to pull all its information from the local database. When you've got multiple pictures on one page from multiple different sources, the issue gets compounded.

While particularly affecting those on narrowband, who still represent about 40% of Internet home users - and yes, that includes me! - hotlinking pictures is also generally regarded as very bad netiquette since you're sucking off another site's bandwidth.

Generally, if your words are not adequate in themselves, and need an illustration of a half-naked woman alongside them, then you should probably rethink your post. Wink

Thank you for your co-operation in this matter...
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Oden · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 8:32 am Post subject:

I've definitely been guilty in the past of posting irrelevant pics, but it has gotten out of control. I made a sarcastic post recently about it, but seriously, it gets hard to read the game day threads when there are so many pics to scroll past. Someone posts a huge pic, then someone else quotes it, which posts it again.

When I don't have a chance to watch the game, I'll read the game day thread to catch up and it's often difficult to follow. I don't see a problem with posting smaller (be conscious of the size!), pertinent pics, but the pointless ones I could do without.

TAP · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 8:44 am Post subject:

tmar · Veteran Presence Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 1248

Wow, I'm going to miss FP's slide show and witty comments during the games. Oftentimes this year it's been better than the game itself.

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I don't know about all of you, but I'm going back to AZCentral... Laughing

Dangerfield · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:17 am Post subject:

Half the fun was half naked women. boobs, beer, baseball, the Get Hank pic, but yeah, I see the bandwidth concerns too. Just one little request, can we see a full size pic of Oden's avatar?
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Hank · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:50 am Post subject:

Let me be the first to say that I don't think anybody expects the get Hank pics to go away. They are clearly relevant...

McCray · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:57 am Post subject:

fp,

save the pic to your harddrive, then upload it to an image host. i use imageshack.us -- it's free. and there's an option to resize when you upload, which can make them tiny.

i used to hotlink, too. then one day, a server changed the picture i was hotlinking to a very, very disturbing one. one by one, i watched all my funny pictures turn to horror. goatse, lemonparty, tubgirl -- oh my.

(if you're unfamiliar with those, fp, do NOT gis for them. you are happier now. i remember the fair-weather days when i didn't have tubgirl etched into my retinas...)
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matt · Veteran Presence Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 1859

I'm familiar with goatse and tubgirl but I've never heard of lemonparty. Is is as bad as the other two?

I second McCray's instructions, do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT even think about doing a GIS for them.

TAP · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 12:08 pm Post subject:

That's like telling someone to not visualize a pink elephant. You know having been told no, you have to!

matt · Veteran Presence Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 1859

There are times when you just have to trust someone. This is one of those times.

McCray · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 12:26 pm Post subject:

this really is. don't do it.

matt, lemonparty is less, well, bodily orifice centric than the first two, but it's still not fun.
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Admin · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject:

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McCray · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:30 pm Post subject:

GIS = google image search. finds pictures. check the options, and take safesearch off. because nipples are cool.

http://images.google.com
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B. O. N. D. · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:55 pm Post subject:

I should've listened. But I'd never seen "lemonparty" before. Mad

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McCray · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:59 pm Post subject:

well... i told you so.

and hey, old guys with no visible testicles need some oral lovin' too, right?
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TAP · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:05 pm Post subject:

matt · Veteran Presence Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 1859

There was a classic fark.com thread where someone's pic was replaced with a pic of a dude with a pickle stuck up his butt. Disturbing, but funny as hell.

B. O. N. D. · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:19 pm Post subject:

McCray · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:53 pm Post subject: