Why arent pics allowed in After Hours?

IvaBigWun

Of all the sections on Boards that could do with the image tag enabled its After Hours.

Why arent pics allowed there?

OldGoat

Too many Facepalms and LOLcats. It's a real pain in the arse for 97%* of the regular users.

*Instant Internetz Statstics Generator

5starpool

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Of all the sections on Boards that could do with the image tag enabled its After Hours.

Why arent pics allowed there?

Because every thread would consist of 'hilarious' pictures making a lot of threads virtually unreadable.

biko

biko wrote: »

Pics have been disabled in AH many years. The reason, I presume, is that people posted "funny" pictures instead of discussing properly, using words.
For instance
There's still CVPL for that stuff.

Btw, you should have seen Feedback before the use of lolcats were clamped down on

In essence, I'm not for it.

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Czarcasm

It's slow enough on the touch site waiting for the youtube video placeholders to load, can you imagine how slow it'd be with all the hotlinked images?

If you absolutely MUST embed an image, use the tag.

We'll see it on the touch site (Sometimes, that's a handy bug, sometimes it's a pain).

seamus

It was originally because of the volume of posts and asshats on after hours, dodgy pictures used to appear a lot. In some cases, some pricks thought it was hilarious to post hundreds of porn images at 5am.

As most of the mods were operating from work, there was the very real concern that dealing with a crappy post could lose someone their job.

I think the question was asked here recently enough, i.e. in the last six months. The level of cop on in AH has improved a lot over the last 2 years, primarily down to good, sensible, active moderation, so I reckon this could probably be lifted.

My only concern is that some posters would think an "hilarious" gif or image would be an acceptable response to a post.

hullaballoo

Goatse. Goatse everywhere.

It was awful. *sniff*

antodeco

Maybe have it as a perk of subscribership?

OldGoat

antodeco wrote: »

Maybe have it as a perk of subscribership?

biko

antodeco wrote: »

Maybe have it as a perk of subscribership?

It doesn't work that way. Images posted would have to be seen by everyone or no-one.

Myrddin

biko wrote: »

It doesn't work that way. Images posted would have to be seen by everyone or no-one.

I think what he meant is that images could be seen by anybody, but only subscribers actually have the option to embed them...?

biko

Right. Yeah, possibly a way forward.

We'll see what the AH forum mods think.

Myrddin

biko wrote: »

Right. Yeah, possibly a way forward.

We'll see what the AH forum mods think.

It'd prob require some dev time, which is in short supply. However, if its an incentive for users to sub, it could pay off. I'm not sure it it really would be an effective enough incentive though...

padd b1975

EnterNow wrote: »

It'd prob require some dev time, which is in short supply. However, if its an incentive for users to sub, it could pay off. I'm not sure it it really would be an effective enough incentive though...

Never underestimate the desire of the typical AH thanks whore for recognition.

Overheal

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056971149

seamus

EnterNow wrote: »

It'd prob require some dev time, which is in short supply. However, if its an incentive for users to sub, it could pay off. I'm not sure it it really would be an effective enough incentive though...

Nah, it's a standard option. You can assign specific rights to specific users in forums. It would be trivial to give this right to subscribers (and mods) afair.

Though that's with the vBulletin permissions engine. Now that they've broken away from vB, I don't know how much of that engine remains.

My name is URL

I'd hate to see pics in AH... even if posting them was limited to subscribers. It's not that difficult to click on a link to an image =/

I know the forum isn't exactly a trove of intellectual discussion most of the time =p .. but the flow of threads would be ruined if even a small percentage of people were allowed to post embedded pictures. It's already bad enough with people going off on tangents and arguing over unrelated stuff in certain threads, and using silly one-liners in lieu of thought out responses.

It's fine on other forums which have a more narrow focus, but AH would just be a dumping ground for overused memes.. people posting pictures of pedobear and Scumbag Steve instead of discussing the topics at hand.

Just my 2 cents.

D

Overheal wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056971149

This is why.

Now, imagine how bad it would be if there were actual picture embedding.

dr.bollocko

Personally I wouldn't mind seeing images in AH.
However trolls, re-regges and morons would most likely use it in the worst possible fashion making it a very risky proposition on a very busy portion of the site.

One useful workaround that might make image link posts more popular is to install a browser addon like hoverzoom that allows you to automatically see an image when you roll over it with the mouse.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom/nonjdcjchghhkdoolnlbekcfllmednbl?hl=en

It's also useful for browsing any number of pic link sites.. Like reddit for example.

Ken.

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Personally I wouldn't mind seeing images in AH.
However trolls, re-regges and morons would most likely use it in the worst possible fashion making it a very risky proposition on a very busy portion of the site.

One useful workaround that might make image link posts more popular is to install a browser addon like hoverzoom that allows you to automatically see an image when you roll over it with the mouse.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom/nonjdcjchghhkdoolnlbekcfllmednbl?hl=en

It's also useful for browsing any number of pic link sites.. Like reddit for example.

Or or we could ask the admins to set up a sub forum. Throw a name on it like cool links,pics & vids. Might work,might not.

dr.bollocko

ken wrote: »

Or or we could ask the admins to set up a sub forum. Throw a name on it like cool links,pics & vids. Might work,might not.

The idea, I believe is that OP wants images to enhance text discussions, not to make them the subject of the discussion, as would generally be the case in cool vids.

So from that POV I could see why an argument like "We already have X forum" wouldn't necessarily be relevant.

Ruu

It is all Polmkis fault, you know what I'm on about. *rocks back and forth in corner*

anncoates

I might be going mad but I'm almost sure I spotted an embedded image in AH recently. Is there a workaround or do some users have more features?

Or am I just going senile?

dr.bollocko

It might have been a signature pic?

anncoates

dr.bollocko wrote: »

It might have been a signature pic?

anncoates wrote: »

Or am I just going senile?

Insect Overlord

anncoates wrote: »

Images sometimes show up on the mobile version, I think.

Czarcasm

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Images sometimes show up on the mobile version, I think.

They do when you embed them with the (IMG) tags. If anncoates was using Chrome Desktop there's a widget / app / extension (ever the fcuk they're calling it these days) that when you hover over image links it shows up the image.

anncoates

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Images sometimes show up on the mobile version, I think.

Must be it.

It was on touch site iirc. Just stock browser on android.

Steve

Ruubot2 wrote: »

It is all Polmkis fault, you know what I'm on about. *rocks back and forth in corner*

Nah, it was Slydice..

nesf

Ruubot2 wrote: »

It is all Polmkis fault, you know what I'm on about. *rocks back and forth in corner*

Ah, memories.

I always regretted that I came in too late for the likes of Bubbles and Polmki