Posting Pictures WAY Too Large on the Forum

[Balticfox]

I don't believe I should trust Google. Isn't Google a willing tool of the ChiComs in Peking?

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

I don't believe I should trust Google. Isn't Google a willing tool of the ChiComs in Peking?

???

Google was the search engine I used. You were supposed to look at the actual websites listed. Like Miriam-Webster's dictionary. Unless they are part of the international conspiracy, too.

I'm actually more interested to know how YOU define social media if an online community forum doesn't qualify. I've never heard anyone argue that position.

[Snowman]

You are the administrator here Leon. This is your responsibility, not ours. All you need to do is install ImageMagick and it will automatically handle resizing images upon upload. And it's free. Expecting users to go through the trouble of manually resizing images and changing image formats every time they want to post a picture is ridiculous. And calling them lazy for not doing it is, well, also ridiculous. Don't be lazy. Just install ImageMagick on the server. Problem solved. For everyone. It would even take you less time to install it than it would for you to comb through posts deleting large images.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Snowman

You are the administrator here Leon. This is your responsibility, not ours. All you need to do is install ImageMagick and it will automatically handle resizing images upon upload. And it's free. Expecting users to go through the trouble of manually resizing images and changing image formats every time they want to post a picture is ridiculous. And calling them lazy for not doing it is, well, also ridiculous. Don't be lazy. Just install ImageMagick on the server. Problem solved. For everyone. It would even take you less time to install it than it would for you to comb through posts deleting large images.

I might be the administrator, or whatever, but I am not technical. I will have it looked into though. If it can easily be done, or done at all on our older S/W, then we will get it installed. As I am helpless, I just put a help ticket in. We'll see.
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[maniac_73]

Originally Posted by Snowman

You are the administrator here Leon. This is your responsibility, not ours. All you need to do is install ImageMagick and it will automatically handle resizing images upon upload. And it's free. Expecting users to go through the trouble of manually resizing images and changing image formats every time they want to post a picture is ridiculous. And calling them lazy for not doing it is, well, also ridiculous. Don't be lazy. Just install ImageMagick on the server. Problem solved. For everyone. It would even take you less time to install it than it would for you to comb through posts deleting large images.

Why are you always so upset?

[BRoberts]

Originally Posted by maniac_73

Why are you always so upset?

There are lots of angry little elves here. It's often fun to just sit back and watch them play with each other.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Snowman

Expecting users to go through the trouble of manually resizing images and changing image formats every time they want to post a picture is ridiculous. And calling them lazy for not doing it is, well, also ridiculous.

Actually I disagree. Who in hell ever promised you things had to be easy? Every forum is different; each has its own idiosyncracies. So if you're going to post somewhere, adapt. And making sure the pictures one posts aren't too big to mess up the formatting of a page isn't nuclear physics. A reasonably intelligent man shouldn't find that overly challenging.

[bmattioli]

I think the term lazy set off a few members..This place is a relief from the world..

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

???Google was the search engine I used. You were supposed to look at the actual websites listed. Like Miriam-Webster's dictionary. Unless they are part of the international conspiracy, too.

You never know....

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

I'm actually more interested to know how YOU define social media if an online community forum doesn't qualify.

Are you really? You're the one who just called another poster an "entitled jerk" (and one with whom I've noticed you have a long running feud). Friendly chats don't seem to be your forte. So I suspect you're just hacking me. But as I told you a couple of weeks ago, if you want to trade jibes I'll play.

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

I've never heard anyone argue that position.

Oh, you haven't? Were you then born yesterday?

Discussion forums have been around more than a decade longer than sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tiktok which were the ones that gave rise to the term "social media". If anything discussion forums such as this are anti-social media.

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

You never know....



Are you really? You're the one who just called another poster an "entitled jerk" (and one with whom I've noticed you have a long running feud). Friendly chats don't seem to be your forte. So I suspect you're just hacking me. But as I told you a couple of weeks ago, if you want to trade jibes I'll play.



Oh, you haven't? Were you then born yesterday?

Discussion forums have been around more than a decade longer than sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tiktok which were the ones that gave rise to the term "social media". If anything discussion forums such as this are anti-social media.

First, I called another person an entitled jerk for being an entitled jerk. Do you support his ridiculous position of calling out the site owner as lazy just because he asked members to make their posts reasonable size? If not, back off. I have plenty of friendly chats with friendly people. I just have little patience for jerks, and I'm not afraid to confront them. So snowman draws my ire quite often because being a jerk is his m.o.

Second, nothing in your argument that discussion forums predated the term social media is remotely evidence that they aren't social media. In fact, the thing that is being named by necessity must exist before the name that develops for it. The fact of the matter is that internet forums are, by definition, social media, whether you acknowledge it or not. I linked you to a whole list of definitions, all of which describe this forum perfectly. Your response was "nuh uh, this isn't myspace, so it must not also be a social media site." I know you fancy yourself clever, but that's silly.

https://postmaker.io/blog/is-a-forum...al%20landscape.

I can already anticipate your response. "But I don't trust the internet to give accurate information" in spite of the fact that 100% of search results support my position and contradict yours. :rollseyes:

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

First, I called another person an entitled jerk for being an entitled jerk.

Nonsense! You called him an entitled jerk for two reasons:

1. You and he have a long history of unpleasant exchanges.

2. And you've shown yourself to be just as much of a jerk yourself.

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

Do you support his ridiculous position of calling out the site owner as lazy just because he asked members to make their posts reasonable size?

Irrelevant! That's not the point and you know it. You could have disagreed the same way I did but you opted to be a jerk instead.

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

If not, back off.

Get stuffed. Not to you I won't.

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

I have plenty of friendly chats with friendly people.

Oh?! Yet you turned a reasonable discussion here into a flame war? Why?

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

I just have little patience for jerks, and I'm not afraid to confront them. So snowman draws my ire quite often because being a jerk is his m.o.

A classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. Look in the mirror.

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

Second, nothing in your argument that discussion forums predated the term social media is remotely evidence that they aren't social media. In fact, the thing that is being named by necessity must exist before the name that develops for it.

Yet the existence of a multitude of discussion forums didn't spawn the term "social media" until Facebook and these others came along. That's because they were different in kind.

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

I know you fancy yourself clever, but that's silly.

So apparently you consider calling someone an "entitled jerk" was erudite instead of silly.

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

I can already anticipate your response. "But I don't trust the internet to give accurate information" in spite of the fact that 100% of search results support my position and contradict yours.

I don't see any such statements in my response. Evidently your predictive powers are every bit as bad as your arguments. And your manners are even worse.

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

A classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. Look in the mirror.

Oh the irony! :rollseyes:

You are literally doing the exact same thing I did. Snowman was being a jerk, so I called him on it. You thought I was a jerk to him, so you call me on it. Do you think you were any more tactful than me? LOL

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

And you requested someone convince you this is a social media site. I took the bait because you promised to leave if it is. I knew you'd renege.

Are you also promising to replace my content then? Incidentally here's what I found when I looked for threads you've stated:

Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

You are literally doing the exact same thing I did. Snowman was being a jerk, so I called him on it. You thought I was a jerk to him, so you call me on it. Do you think you were any more tactful than me?

Oh I agree! I'm an old veteran and a singularly nasty piece of work when it comes to pissing matches on discussion forums.



But I own up to it. I don't desperately try to rationalize my behaviour.

But by the same token I contribute big time. You might try that too sometime.

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

Oh?! Yet you turned a reasonable discussion here into a flame war? Why?

I didn't turn anything into a flame war. Snowman insulted Leon. And you requested someone convince you this is a social media site. I took the bait because you promised to leave if it is. I knew you'd renege.