Outside hosting is when a poster uses a third party platform to upload images and then uses a link to that third party platform to display images on this forum. Eventually, those third party (outside) images go away and when they do, the thread here remains but without the images that went with it.
Therefore:
Posts or new threads which contain photos that are hosted by an outside source will be closed. In special cases, at the discretion of moderators or association members, photos from outside hosting might be and can be copied and pasted back into such threads by moderators or any association member but this will be the exception, not the rule.
The goal is not censorship but preservation of thread integrity.
This policy is instituted in order to preserve the threads for later reading and thus also preserving the integrity of the overall forum, being one of the best sources on the planet for this hobby. It has unfortunately happened over the last years that a very large amount of threads became useless due to the missing photos. This policy will stop that degeneration of the forum.
John
Therefore:
Posts or new threads which contain photos that are hosted by an outside source will be closed. In special cases, at the discretion of moderators or association members, photos from outside hosting might be and can be copied and pasted back into such threads by moderators or any association member but this will be the exception, not the rule.
The goal is not censorship but preservation of thread integrity.
This policy is instituted in order to preserve the threads for later reading and thus also preserving the integrity of the overall forum, being one of the best sources on the planet for this hobby. It has unfortunately happened over the last years that a very large amount of threads became useless due to the missing photos. This policy will stop that degeneration of the forum.
John
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