Note: Due to our anti-spam precautions, new users will not be able to post images or links until they’ve posted 1 link and image-free post, and 24 hours from registration have elapsed! Thanks for understanding.
To post a link, simply copy the URL, and follow this format (minus spaces):
url ]http://Your-URL-Here /url ]
If your URL is very long, follow this format (minus spaces):
url=http://Your-Long-URL-Here ]This text will be a link! /url ]
To post an image, there are two methods.
]If you are attaching an image: Scroll down to just below the posting text box. Browse to the image you want to upload, write in a description, and click on “Add the File”.
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*]If you are linking to an external image: Copy the image URL. To make an image show up in-forum, you need to use the direct URL to the image, not the URL for a gallery page. If you’re running Firefox or the newer IE versions, you can right-click on the image and “Copy image URL”.
Follow this format when posting your image on the forum (minus spaces):
img ]http://Your-Image-URL-Here /img ]
Make sure you remember to use “http://” in the URL, or images will not show up!/*:m]
The permission to post links does happen automatically. Make sure you use the HTTP:// part when posting links. If it’s still not working when we get back we will look at it. We will be back on Jan 5th.
Due to anti-spam precautions, new users will not be able to post images or links until they’ve posted 1 link and image-free post, and 24 hours from registration have elapsed! Thanks for understanding.
I believe that it might have to be 24 hours after your first post. I believe your post was at 11:16pm last night, so you may have to wait until the morning.
I see the tools for doing this when composing messages intended for the entire forum. However, I am unable to find similar tools for attaching images to Private Messages intended for only a few addressees.
Thank you. I see that I can use the image tags, but I can not find a way to place a picture image between them. I was able to copy and paste some text between them, but the associated picture (.jpg) image would not paste. If images of text are the only things allowed, “” is very misleading and not very useful.
I thought I would now respond publicly after I teased you with a PM with an image
Awhile ago Lynxmotion did not have any image hosting directly on their forums, so you had to use some external server to host your images. At that time I was using Photobucket, which is still a valid host. What you had to do was to upload your images to their site. When you had an image there, they gave you links to it in several different formats. In the case I used the direct link.
You are right; I was not understanding, but I was beginning to get there. Zenta and Kurte had each sent me PMs with images. By analyzing those, I found they each had placed URL site references within the Img tags. So their pictures were already on the net and not on their private computers as mine are.
It was a good explanation. It helps me understand that what I want to do is impossible. It doesn’t help me achieve the impossible.
And here I thought you were the problem solver for the organization!
Thank you.
She is. That’s why she disabled the ability to host files in PM’s. There are security risks, and we just don’t want the forum database to be filled with things that do not benefit the entire forum community.
It doesn’t help me achieve the impossible. 
