Help questions

[bazarov]

I am not a newbie, but I'm
So, is it possible to put animation for avatar or signature? Please....

[kathycf]

You won't be able to use an animation for a signature picture, I know that because I tried a couple of weeks ago.

It is my understanding that animated avatars are allowed. At least they were, because I saw people with them. You can find a whole list of sites that offer them here. Keep in mind that sometimes animated avatars can be distracting to other users so you might want to keep the animation low key.

Once you have found one that is the right size, you upload it just as you did your current avatar.

[Nightshade]

OK i had to check but you can use animated avys but Kath is right they dont work in the sigs

[dramasnot6]

We love you kathy! Thanks so much for this useful guide! I thought I was pretty decent at navigating and using the forum but a learned a fair bit when reading through.

[Nightshade]

How long have I been a member and I nevre saw the popup thinggy

Thanks again kathy *runs off to play with her options*

[kathycf]

Could one of the moderators explain how the ignore function works? My basic understanding of it is that you will no longer see posts from a particular person.

But what about threads that they start, or what if a person on your ignore list sends you a PM? Do you see the threads, and receive the PM?

I don't use the ignore list, and I was wondering about it, and thought maybe someone else might wonder about it too.

[Niamh]

If you copy a picture from a site and then put it in your photo bucket account where it gets imaging tags is that still classed as hotlinking? Just wondering....
And how does they buddy/ignore lists work?

[kathycf]

If you copy a picture from a site and then put it in your photo bucket account where it gets imaging tags is that still classed as hotlinking?

No.

Say I run a website called Kathy's Clipart. I have clipart on my website,and I pay a company to host my site. Instead of taking the clipart and hosting it yourself, you decide to just link to my images that are hosted by me. Part of paying for a website is paying for the bandwidth that the website uses.

Bandwidth refers to how much data you can send through a network or modem connection. It is usually measured in bits per second, or "bps." You can think of bandwidth as a highway with cars travelling on it. The highway is the network connection and the cars are the data. The wider the highway, the more cars can travel on it at one time. Therefore more cars can get to their destinations faster. The same principle applies to computer data -- the more bandwidth, the more information that can be transferred within a given amount of time.

So, say you have a hotlinked an image from Kathy's Clipart here at litnet. Every time the page is loaded with that picture on it, it takes bandwidth from my site because that is where the images are hosted. Therefore,that costs ME money, so it is analogous to stealing.

When you take a picture from Kathy's Clipart and host it yourself at photobucket, now you are using photobucket's bandwidth to display the image. That is ok, because that is what photobucket is there for. They want you to do that, because when you use their service, they show you advertisements. They also advertise their premium services which people pay for.


Hotlinking is when you don't download the image to your computer and you don't have it hosted somewhere (like photobucket) yourself.

Now, the other issue is taking a copyrighted image. Well, sometimes people will use code to disable right clicking on an image, and that protects it to a degree. They can also do a few other things to protect their image. I guess alot depends on the integrity and knowledge of the person gathering images. For example, I might be able to get somebody else's artwork into my photobucket account, but that doesn't give me the right to sell it, or claim it as my own work.

[bazarov]

How to delete post?

[Logos]

You can't. If you ask a mod nicely they may do it for you, or, just Edit it like you did with message "Please delete" or somesuch

[bazarov]

Thank you

[bazarov]

What is criteria for putting someone on member list? Looks to me that it's not number of posts?

[bazarov]

So why then The Atheist is not on the list?

[Fen]

Please could someone tell me if it is possible to increase the text size not when I am posting but in general when I am just browsing it would really help because this site makes me head achy after awhile

[Fen]

Thank you Logos you don't know how helpful that is I appreciate it