I’ve been spending a bit of time on the Epic forums lately and love the ability to add images to my posts, and to have a text signature underneath every post.
Here’s an example of one I posted in the last couple of days:
http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/949570-Web-skin-to-become-scarce-All-codes-have-run-out
Now, I understand the reasoning behind restricting the use of such privileges, it can easily be abused. However, I think the team of moderators we have here do an excellent job of stamping down on infringements of existing rules, and I would like to think they’d be able to cope with any extra problems arising from introduction of these two features.
I’m aware that signatures can be added by people who have attained the rank of Spartan, but that does require an incredibly high post count.
As far as I’m aware, no users (except perhaps admins) have the ability to add images to their posts. I don’t mean using an image as a sig, I mean placing an image in the main body of the post.
Perhaps such abilities could be given to people of a certain forum rank, although I was thinking a little lower than Spartan!!!.
Do you think this would just cause too much hassle on the forums?
Would it be possible to trial such a feature in the near future?
Thanks for your time.
I’m personally against the idea, from a technical standpoint, when Admins add photos to posts, we don’t just see the image, we have to download it to our PC and then view it.
I don’t know if this is what tags do on the YAF software, but it isn’t exactly optimal for a signature image.
> I’m personally against the idea, from a technical standpoint, when Admins add photos to posts, we don’t just see the image, we have to download it to our PC and then view it.
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> I don’t know if this is what tags do on the YAF software, but it isn’t exactly optimal for a signature image.
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Sorry, I didn’t mean images as signatures. I meant images in posts, like the [shot] [/shot] feature on the epic forums.
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> I’m quite happy with text for signatures.
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> I’ll edit the OP to make it clearer.
> > I’m personally against the idea, from a technical standpoint, when Admins add photos to posts, we don’t just see the image, we have to download it to our PC and then view it.
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> > I don’t know if this is what tags do on the YAF software, but it isn’t exactly optimal for a signature image.
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Sorry, I didn’t mean images as signatures. I meant images in posts, like the [shot] [/shot] feature on the epic forums.
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> > I’m quite happy with text for signatures.
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> > I’ll edit the OP to make it clearer.
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Ooooh, apologies for the mistake 
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> > Still, posting images has only ever been seen as having to download said image before viewing, the fact these images are uploaded to Halo Waypoint directly, then users download them from there is a little dangerous on 343’s end.
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> > I understand it would be monitored heavily, but still, so much mishap could happen.
> > > I’m personally against the idea, from a technical standpoint, when Admins add photos to posts, we don’t just see the image, we have to download it to our PC and then view it.
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> > > I don’t know if this is what tags do on the YAF software, but it isn’t exactly optimal for a signature image.
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Sorry, I didn’t mean images as signatures. I meant images in posts, like the [shot] [/shot] feature on the epic forums.
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> > > I’m quite happy with text for signatures.
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> > > I’ll edit the OP to make it clearer.
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Ooooh, apologies for the mistake
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> > > Still, posting images has only ever been seen as having to download said image before viewing, the fact these images are uploaded to Halo Waypoint directly, then users download them from there is a little dangerous on 343’s end.
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> > > I understand it would be monitored heavily, but still, so much mishap could happen.
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I thought the topic would just use an html reference and place the image from the source straight into the post, rather than having to upload images to the Waypoint servers.
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> > > Uploading/attaching images was not what I had in mind as that would be more time consuming from the user’s point of view. I mean just pasting a link to the image into the [shot] [/shot] facility.
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> > > On the Epic forums it automatically resizes the image and places it into the body of the post wihtout uploading it to their servers. It also automatically creates a hyperlink so if you click the image it opens it up full-size in a new tab. It’s a really quick and easy to use feature which I like a lot.
> I understand it would be monitored heavily, but still, so much mishap could happen.
That is a good point and one I considered.
I’ve been on the Epic forum a lot this week and haven’t seen a single inappropriate image in the Judgment forum though. 99.9% of the posts don’t use the feature anyway.
Also, by limiting it to a certain forum rank and above (but not Spartan!) it would help limit abusers who would try to make new accounts to continue causing problems with it.
> > > > I’m personally against the idea, from a technical standpoint, when Admins add photos to posts, we don’t just see the image, we have to download it to our PC and then view it.
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> > > > I don’t know if this is what tags do on the YAF software, but it isn’t exactly optimal for a signature image.
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Sorry, I didn’t mean images as signatures. I meant images in posts, like the [shot] [/shot] feature on the epic forums.
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> > > > I’m quite happy with text for signatures.
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> > > > I’ll edit the OP to make it clearer.
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Ooooh, apologies for the mistake
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> > > > Still, posting images has only ever been seen as having to download said image before viewing, the fact these images are uploaded to Halo Waypoint directly, then users download them from there is a little dangerous on 343’s end.
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> > > > I understand it would be monitored heavily, but still, so much mishap could happen.
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I thought the topic would just use an html reference and place the image from the source straight into the post, rather than having to upload images to the Waypoint servers.
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> > > > Uploading/attaching images was not what I had in mind as that would be more time consuming from the user’s point of view. I mean just pasting a link to the image into the [shot] [/shot] facility.
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> > > > On the Epic forums it automatically resizes the image and places it into the body of the post wihtout uploading it to their servers. It also automatically creates a hyperlink so if you click the image it opens it up full-size in a new tab. It’s a really quick and easy to use feature which I like a lot.
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I’m not sure what the YAF software can do compared to the Epic forums software, but I’ve yet to see an image just posted here in bulk.
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> > > > I’m gonna go look over the YAF website, see if it lists what is possible in terms of customization, I’ll be back shortly 
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> > > > EDIT: Well I found something that tickled my fancy!
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> > > > Custom “BBCode” extension system allowing adding of community features.
> > > > Custom “BBCode” extension system
> > > > Supports Custom BBCodes
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> > > > http://yetanotherforum.net/features.aspx
Oh, I see. So the waypoint forums uses the YAF system, I didn’t realise that. Thanks for the info.
Not to be a stick in the mud, but I wouldn’t trust any of the Halo community members with the ability to post images in posts like other forums… Unless they make it so normal members can only post screen shots from the file share system.
Granted, there are those of us forum members who understand that there are rules and lines you just don’t cross. But there are those who treat the forum rules like they’re simple guidelines that they don’t have to listen to if they don’t want too.