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#1 Chaliandra

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 09:50 AM

I noticed after posting a few times with image links from ponibooru or knowyourmeme the forums would block it. When I would attempt post a image from ponibooru or kym, the site would give me an error saying

"You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community."


I understand for those two, because of the NSFW stuff both sites can contain. But then something bothered me.

I posted an image from newegg.com and it was blocked by the site. I can't really think of a reason of why newegg would be blocked. I actually had to upload the pictures I wanted to post to my own personal imgur account as a workaround.

I'm finding this to be an inconvenience rather than a measure to protect the site from vulgar material.

Edited for more clarification


Solved. Thanks ratty.

Edited by Chaliandra, 12 January 2012 - 10:23 AM.


#2 Ratty

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 09:53 AM

Its not our policy to block any site.
Any of that blocking would be on the remote side, probably not wanting to pay for the bandwidth of allowing what is called hotlinking.
It would be useful if you gave some specific examples.

#3 Chaliandra

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 10:00 AM

i used this image as an example.

http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/7ef353bbba35069fe8a021f1928e4f99/5615%20-%20celestia%20i'm_okay_with_this%20meme.JPG

maybe its just the dimension of the image its blocking? Or the fact it is a JPG file? I'm not sure.

This is the image from newegg the forums block as well.

http://images17.newe...02-908-TS?S300W

Edited by Chaliandra, 12 January 2012 - 10:01 AM.


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Posted 12 January 2012 - 10:13 AM

I tried linking it, it gives the error "filenames with that extension is not allowed", I'll see if it can be set to not check that.

ok done


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