Need a method to police the images that are uploaded to our servers because we simply can't trust people to upload only images that comply with our posted image policy
Need a means of automatically resizing uploaded images because many users are unable to resize them on their own thus wasting tons of bandwidth simply for shits and giggles
Need a system to watermark and/or prevent bandwidth leeching for images hosted on our servers and posted in the forum
Need a way for us to selectively prevent users that routinely violate our posted image policy from uploading and/or including images in their posts without simply banning their accounts
Need a DMCA process because people are bound to post images that they don't have rights to
Need to consider the design or integration of a system for maintaining the necessary 2257 documentation in order to allow members to post images of themselves only that would require documentation. These types of images would be exempt from our posted image policy if the proper identification items are provided.
Many more items can be added to this list but I think these are enough to present a picture of what's involved in adding image support to a porn forum. It might be different if this forum was dedicated to bass fishing. We can't be thrown in jail for people posting pictures of their lunker largemouth but we can go to jail for some fucktard posting pictures of people fucking.
Love that place. We attended a wedding in St. Thomas a couple years ago. I rented a 24ft Mako for the day and we set off exploring and snorkeling. Awesome, awesome place populated by some really shitty, uncooperative people.
When we were returning the boat we met Sterling Marlin, his wife, son and daughter in law.
St. Croix is similar. I've never been to a place where the homes in rural areas have security bars on the doors and windows. Tijuanna feels safer than most of St. Croix.
The scuba diving off the north shore of St. Croix is pretty spectacular but I don't ever plan to go back.
Most of the work is in the behind-the-scenes administrative end of things. That all has to be built from scratch. (All of the building blocks required for image upload, resizing and optimization have been done for a long time. ) The database structure is mostly built too.
A bunch of the extra time is spent coding all of the database routines. I do 99% of the database interactions in stored procedures. I find them easier to maintain and much faster in terms of performance.
We'll also have image/photo moderators that will have real-time access to view all images uploaded to our servers. (Luke Mason has graciously volunteered to be our first photo-mod.) The admin pages for the photo-mods need to be built.
There's also some other cool shit planned for the image system but it's a bit preliminary to blab about that at the moment.
Most of the new system is written at this time. I'm still about a week away though. I don't know if I'll have it completely done before ELA but I'm hoping to. Here's some of the features of the new image uploading/hosting system: <ul style="list-style:none;padding:0px;margin:5px">
Each registered member will have their own personal filespace area of ADT where they can upload files (not just images)
Files can be organized into folders within your filespace
Image uploads will automatically be optimized for the web and shrunk to a maximum of 800 pixels in height or width while maintaining proper proportions
Option to generate thumbnails automatically for image uploads
Option to create smaller-sized copies of large images
Copy/paste shortcuts for embedding images into reviews and forum posts will be automatically created for each image.
User-defined file permissions: control which members can access your files and images. (non-public images can't be used in reviews or the forum.
Images will only be visible to users that have clicked through our entrance page to prevent hotlinking from elsewhere on the internet.
We have the ability to turn off a user's file uploading privileges if they become a problem
We have a system to easily review every file uploaded to our servers.
New tags to support images: [img=] used to embed an image in the forum or a review. (Yes reviews will support this BBCode tag.) Image tags will be automatically generated for you when uploading a file. They will look like [Image not found DB]. [thumb=] display the thumbnail for an image, i.e.[thumb=274005dcae914] [thumblink=] Display a clickable thumbnail for an image with a link to the full-sized image. i.e. [thumblink=274005dcae914] When the new image system is ready I'll make a more formal post here in tech talk. I may launch a quickie upload system without the full resizing, permissions and folder support before putting the whole thing live. We'll see.
I just have one question. If people can't post copyrighted or nudie images, what kind of images are they supposed to post? Don't get me wrong. I think it's really cool and I appreciate all the improvements to the forum. I just can't think of anything I'd really want to post. I don't know. I guess some other folks might have personal pics they will share.
We'll make a more formal announcement soon. But in the mean time you can click the "Upload Image" button below the text box when typing a post. Or you can go to your profile. (My Profile at the top of the page.) In your profile click the Images tab and then the Files and Folders link. From that page you can upload new images and manage your existing images.
#SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03
Posted - Aug 29 2007 : 1:31PM
There have been a number of images posted which violate the rules (explicit box covers, stills, etc.). Most of the instances I've seen (and my own) have not seemed defiant or malicious, but just unaware or forgetful of the rules. To minimize the number of inappropriate images being put in posts, what about adding a dialog box to the image-upload process? It would be similar to how you have to agree to the terms of the software license when you're installing a new program on your computer, except the dialog summarizing the rules would be just a couple of sentences long, so that people could actually reasonably be expected to read it before clicking on "yes, my photo complies with the rules" or whatever.
I started writing that type of functionality before taking a few vacations this month. It's in the works. I'm writing it so that every time we update the acceptable image policy everyone will have to click the "yes, I have read these rules" before being allowed to upload images again.
Anal Slut Lilly Wants To Gape - review by bono-one
Posted - May 20 2007 : 11:54PM
