Reply To: Travels of Code Monkey photo album

[Percephene]

Perhaps someday when I have time or a sufficient level of boredom, I’ll write summaries for the longer bits of the FAQ. For this section see if this suffices:

If linking from an image hosting site, copy the text from their embed HTML box (usually to the side or below the image) and paste that into the image. Where it offers a range of sizes, choose something smaller than the original image. The posted image will automatically link back to the original if anyone wants to see the big version.
Note: If using Picasa, you need to be logged in to get the link options.

Otherwise, link the pictures hosted address (by right clicking on the image and selecting Copy Image Location or IE equiv and then back in the forum post, click the little img button and paste the URL into the dialog box.

To me that covers all the bases. I’d put it either at the beginning or the end of the longer post and call it the quick version or something appropriate.
Or did I miss something about the Bad Thing™? Should the pic also link to the source? In which case add at the end:

Then select the whole img tag, click the blue link button and paste the address of the page on which you found the image.

For example:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Baby_ginger_monkey.jpg – The image location
– The image tag created
– The full linked image tag. A Good Thing™

I agree that the more detailed version needs to be there, not debating its content at all, but for experienced users who just aren’t used to Vanilla (me) or sites like Picasa (also me) they may just want a quick tip to sort out their issue. All I needed was the bit in bold ^

I used to write big long threads for my WoW guild and one of our officers refused to read anything long so I took to writing a summary for him in big bold letters at the end. Then I realised that the big bold summary actually said 99% of what needed to be said and detail questions could be covered if they arose and so I started just deleting my big long post at the end once I’d written the summary.
Perhaps its just the Plain English classes finally working!