Picture Cropping Requirement Rule

[darkblade986]

This is an issue I come across quite alot now aday. People post pictures onto the forums, but don't bother cropping them. This is especially a problem for people who post a picture from a 1024x768 monitor and they're being viewed by a person on an 800x600.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I suggest is that a rule be added, where any picture of in-game play (or any picture in general), must be cropped down to either a view of the game screen only (no surrounding blackness or view of your browser), or crop it so that the absolute minimum amount of space is taken.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Main problem with this is that oversized pictures stretch the window, and with it text stretches with it. This makes it very hard to simply read through, because you then have to go and use the horizontal scroll bar to see the rest of the text. I understand that if a picture did that but that much space was needed, that'd be fine. However the rule should then be a max dimension, where any picture exceeding it must be scaled to size.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perhaps the rule should also be made where if you're posting an image from an image hosting site (www.imageshack.us for example), and a Thumbnail view is available, that should be required to be used so that if someone wants to see the picture, they can click and see it. Otherwise they should be able to read through on their own without seeing it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This would also help people on dial-up connections. They could get right to reading the post without having to wait for the picture if they don't want to.

[tripsis]

I don't think people should have to use Imageshack thumbnails, but I understand what you're saying. I think there are a fair amount of people who just flat out don't know how to properly crop. As long as the community were helpful when it came to teaching people how to crop, or providing them with useful links that could teach them, I'd be fine with it. I can see how this could fit under section 1.2 - Irritating Posting Styles/Spamming.

[darkblade986]

I was thinking that I might like to write a guide on cropping, and so I went to the Player-made guide section. I looked at the bottom sticky (the one about how you should write your guide), and ironically enough I stumbled upon a guide on cropping for beginners using MS Paint. This guide is located in The Gallery (not sure what page), linked to here. Perhaps this should get stickied in The Gallery, and in the process copied and moved to the main forums (General P2P, General, ect) so that people can read it and know.

[Cruiser]

What ever happened to the forum automatically down sizing large pictures like that?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have some random memory that something like that was in effect at some point around here...

[Guest]

Yes please put this rule in! It annoys me so much when people post ridiculos sized images.

[Dragontotem]

Yea, i totally agree with this. It annoys me to see LARGE pictures, with 90% of white and 10% of "the real image" =/

[Mercifull]

I dont think this forum ever had a feature that did that Cruiser?

 

 

 

I implemented some code onto Darkwebz that did it but i dont recall it being on Tipit

[pokemama]

I stumbled upon a guide on cropping for beginners using MS Paint. This guide is located in The Gallery (not sure what page), linked to here. Perhaps this should get stickied in The Gallery, and in the process copied and moved to the main forums (General P2P, General, ect) so that people can read it and know.

 

 

 

The guide is listed in the Gallery sticky of tutorials etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And I was advised that stuff about pics belongs in the Gallery, otherwise I would have put it in the AOW, lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glad you were able to stumble across the link.

[Kill_Life]

I agree that pictures need to be cropped.

 

 

 

Less irritating etc...

 

 

 

Better to look at, and less flame.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I mean, how hard can it be to crop a picture? :wink:

 

 

 

And that guide used to be in Player-Made guides.

 

 

 

After some discussing, it got moved to the Gallery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tough I support this to give the Forums a better look, most people won't even bother to crop it... -.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe if it's a rule... Or they won't post pictures at all...

[Kiriyama]

Or for Excessive Images you have to use

[url=insertpictureurl]what you leveled/small descirption[/url]

[darkblade986]

Sorry for bumping up this old topic, but I just found something that I think verifies my point (to a degree...)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.3 - BBCode may be used only for images, links, or non-disturbing (excessive) text

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use of images, flash, or text within the body of a message may be restricted as deemed necessary by Moderators for board performance issues. Always convert your images to '.gif', '.jpg', or '.png' graphic formats before posting. Never use .bmp's as their size is large and bandwidth consuming. You should also 'crop' all images before posting to reduce their physical size and prevent forum distortion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The rule I was requesting was already a rule in the first place, although it's one of the less-enforced rules. Perhaps the rule should begin to be enforced now?

[the_tallest1]

The rule I was requesting was already a rule in the first place, although it's one of the less-enforced rules. Perhaps the rule should begin to be enforced now?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, you pretty much hit the nail on the head there. My suggestion is for people to just report the post and state the reasoning. In my experience I find this is really only be a problem in the high traffic picture based boards (Rate This, Blogscape, Gallery etc.) I really hate horizontal scrollling so I often just remove the image tags when it distorts the page.

[Kill_Life]

So we can just remarque uncropped pictures as spam?

 

 

 

If only...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Never has a mod done something about this.

 

 

 

It's finally time this happens.

 

 

 

People will start taking care of it I hope.

 

 

 

Will make the forums a better place.

[the_tallest1]

So we can just remarque uncropped pictures as spam?

 

 

 

If only...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Never has a mod done something about this.

 

 

 

It's finally time this happens.

 

 

 

People will start taking care of it I hope.

 

 

 

Will make the forums a better place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd report it as "other" and say that the picture is too large and if you wish also refer to the rule. I've removed img tags on pictures before (with a warning to crop it) so it has been done at least once :P but I usually reserved it for those that distort the page beyond its standard dimensions.