Let's stop using photobucket on the forums.

[Nyles]

So I should just trash my whole photobucket account based on the fact that you don't like it?

Yeah, not gonna happen.

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by Nyles

So I should just trash my whole photobucket account based on the fact that you don't like it?

Yeah, not gonna happen.

No, that's not what I suggested at all. Imgur and other sites like it are purpose built for hosting images intended for forum posts. Photobucket is not. All I'm asking is that people use one of those sites for posting images on this forum, or any other forum. It's frustrating to scroll through a picture thread and see half of the posts made of multiple placeholder thumbnails from photobucket notifying me that the user's bandwidth allowance has been exceeded.

[Zulu Two Six]

its a choice of preference
you can't tell the entire forum not to use something

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by Zulu Two Six

its a choice of preference
you can't tell the entire forum not to use something

I'm not making demands of anybody. I can't imagine why anyone would intentionally choose photobucket over any other site to host an image post, so I assume it's a matter of not knowing about alternatives. Obviously it's not something that can be enforced, but if it could be acknowledged as an official preference it might be helpful.

I know on the somethingawful forums they state in the rules that it is preferred that any image host besides photobucket is used (a preference not a hard and fast rule). Before imgur was launched the users there created waffleimages as an alternative to photobucket, but I can't advocate for that here because it's run on the private servers of SA forum users specifically for images posted to SA.

I bring this up because of this thread.

http://forum.imfdb.org/showthread.php?t=216

A whole bunch images there weren't showing up. Whether or not the images load from photobucket is variable depending on how many people are viewing the thread.

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by Zulu Two Six

its a choice of preference
you can't tell the entire forum not to use something

But it's POI. He manages to say something 'douchy' every three days or so!

[Zulu Two Six]

okay, i feel this should be pointed out POI, just so you dont piss me off.

1. i fucking hate your guts right now
2. i have a feeling that 3/4 of this forum hates your guts right now
3. some days i will have a short temper, it depends what mood im in.
4. you have already been banned, lets not go through this again
5. if you are corrected, dont be a dick, just accept it and shut the hell up
6. dont be a smartass
7. keep unnecesary comments to yourself

that is all. leave me alone

[Gunmaster45]

Originally Posted by Zulu Two Six

okay, i feel this should be pointed out POI, just so you dont piss me off.

1. i fucking hate your guts right now
2. i have a feeling that 3/4 of this forum hates your guts right now
3. some days i will have a short temper, it depends what mood im in.
4. you have already been banned, lets not go through this again
5. if you are corrected, dont be a dick, just accept it and shut the hell up
6. dont be a smartass
7. keep unnecesary comments to yourself

that is all. leave me alone

Zulu, calm down. POI is a person on an internet forum whom you have never met. Just because he has written more than a few annoying posts, doesn't mean you must brand him spawn of Satan and despise his existance. In this instance he's at least being somewhat level headed, he's not being sarcastic or anything.

[BurtReynoldsMoustache]

Originally Posted by Zulu Two Six

okay, i feel this should be pointed out POI, just so you dont piss me off.

1. i fucking hate your guts right now
2. i have a feeling that 3/4 of this forum hates your guts right now
3. some days i will have a short temper, it depends what mood im in.
4. you have already been banned, lets not go through this again
5. if you are corrected, dont be a dick, just accept it and shut the hell up
6. dont be a smartass
7. keep unnecesary comments to yourself

that is all. leave me alone

What did he do to piss you off? State a preference for paintball?

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by BurtReynoldsMoustache

What did he do to piss you off? State a preference for paintball?

Do a search and read everything he writes to everyone. Then you won't ask such a question

Remember my description of the kid who pokes you with a stick and you tell him to stop and he says "I'm not doing anything" and then he does it again. It's not an all out assault, but it's a cumulative build up of frustration and rage against his incessant contrariness.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by BurtReynoldsMoustache

What did he do to piss you off? State a preference for paintball?

I deleted some of his posts, so you can't see what Zulu was responding to.

But in the future, guys, there's no need to respond to PoI (assuming he keeps trying to re-register via other computers and IPs - and as we've seen already, he's such a loser that he's actually willing to do this).