Possible problem: they can expire, right?
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While you can't hotlink. you can link directly, simply by making the offsite url into a link. [[http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm232/mintkiller/facepalm.jpg]] That yields this: [1]
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edited 16th Oct '10 4:54:08 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
adopting kitteh
Agreed with Madrugada. Don't see a particularly strong reason why hotlink is needed, in particular considering the external lifetime issue. Just having a link to the stuff you want works wonders.
Fanfic Recs orwellianretcon'd: cutlocked for committee or for Google?
Literally A Princess
Seconding the OP, though, if nothing else, the mediatropes domains should probably be allowed.
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DUMB
It means that the server has a lot of reaction images and crap on it. I realize that disk space isn't an important issue, but (for example) look at the 338 images uploaded by Smokie. Do we really need all of that? Surely it would be easier to let people put that crap elsewhere.
I don't see expiration as being an important issue for most threads, anyway.
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Images that aren't linked on a page get cleared after six months or so, or whenever Fast Eddie runs the scrubber.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
mediatropes.info is now unblocked
Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty
Like imageshack, or dropbox, or photobucket, that sort of thing. That would allow people to embed images without uploading them to the TV Tropes server, which should really only be used for articles' images, right?
The "but then people could use shock images" argument doesn't really work because they could just upload them to the TV Tropes server as it is.
At the very least, mediatropes.info should probably be unblocked. :|
Thanks in advance.
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