Change to image hosting rules

[Jo Pearson]

It has come to my attention that there is a serious problem with Imagevenue. Basically, they've started adding porn ads to all their pages, and future use of their image hosting service here would violate the Proboards TOS and probably result in the deletion of this forum.

As I'm sure none of us here want to see that happen, can you please stop using Imagevenue immediately, and stick to the embedded Imageshack uploader we have here, or other safe hosts such as Photobucket.

From this point onwards, any new posts containing links to images hosted on Imagevenue will be edited by myself or one of the mods to remove the image and link. If any member continues to use Imagevenue despite their posts being edited, then they will be warned and, if they continue after having been warned, then their account will be suspended for a period to be decided.

I'm sorry to do this to you all, but I'm sure you can understand why I'm having to do it...

Thanks,

Jo.

[G-Man]

This isn't related to image hosting, but there is a similar problem.

I was browsing the website on my PSP, and I noticed the following ad:

College Girls Take Dumps
Over 100 MPEG & DVD's Famous College Girls Toilet Films

Either I've got the wrong end of the stick, or that is a very bad advertisement. Something should be done about this.

[Mischa is my life!]

WTFFFFFFF??!? I hate this s**t.

Thanks SO much for reporting it hun!!!

[Jo Pearson]

Unfortunately, there's not much I can do about that - those ads are controlled by ProBoards (the forum's hosting service) and Google. The only way to get rid of them (I think) is to pay to make the board ad-free - which we can't afford...

And they work by looking for keywords in the posts which are related to the ads, so there must have been something on that page which triggered the ad.

So we've just got to put up with the occasional bad advert like that, and understand why we're seeing them.

But thanks for bringing it to our attention anyway...


(And Chia - great unintentional joke - "College girls take dumps" and "I hate this s**t"!!!!!! )

[Mischa is my life!]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOO. I know I am one of a kind XD

I always get the Tom Cruise Anniversary whatever as ads on our home!!! lol

[Jo Pearson]

Imagevenue are at it again with the porn ads on "family-safe" images. As a result, we need to be extra-vigilant with regards to not using this image host.

[Mischa is my life!]

OK Jo! I will, thanks for warning

[meeshluv]

I see we have a new "attachment" feature now - with a strongly-worded warning about copyright...

[Jo Pearson]

Aug 9, 2009 23:09:43 GMT meeshluv said:

I see we have a new "attachment" feature now - with a strongly-worded warning about copyright...

Yeah, it's a new feature they've sprung on us without the option of turning it off. Because there's only very limited webspace available for hosting the attachments (100 Meg), I've set it to a "staff only" feature that we can use to host important files - That way, it doesn't all get used up by people posting pictures and stuff like that.

[meeshluv]

Sounds like a good idea, Jo!