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Allow images to be uploaded via hyperlink (Done)
...rather than having to upload from your machine, would be nice to cut and paste hyperlink to image.
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Having to download the image to the system and then upload to grupthink is the single most frustrating part of adding answers I've found in the week or so that I've been on grupthink...
I've deferred adding answers to later, because I was just feeling too lazy to hunt for an image..
This move would likely give Grupthink a lot of negative attention. Better to have thousands of random people grabbing what may be copyright-protected pictures than a single source: Grupthink. So I'm unvoting my own answer. (But please correct me if you see another way!)
I don't see how this would be change anything (aside from making them more convenient for grupies). People would be most likely be using the same images, so I'm not sure how this would change copyright issues.
It's not like grupthink would be hotlinking the images; it would just take on more file transfer out of the equation.
origin -> grupthink
rather than
origin -> grupie's box -> grupthink
It would be too hard to format image or movie links from other sites, and incorporate them into the site's webpages. To allow content from other websites would negatively affect the aesthetics that the makers have done very to establish.
I don't think I understood what is begin asked here.
*being* asked here
The way I see it, there's just no reason for this not to work flawlessly. You eliminate one leg of the file transfer process, you get to use GTs bandwidth (yes, they've got lots) to access the image, and you're not creating undue load on anyone else's server. There's still only a single HTTP request to get the image, and that won't even make a blip on the radar of the site owner.
If you're concerned about the ramifications of a single source (GT) downloading thousands of images, there's a few things to take into account. One, the images are not all coming from the same place. A thousand images a day being requested from one specific server will get noticed. A thousand images being requested from a thousand different servers will not. Two, it could even be used to boost whatever pages had the luck of being linked from - when GT grabs the image, it would be trivially difficult to, say, watermark the image with the original location, or possibly add a small link back to the original server. They'd get a link from a high PR site and would probably welcome the bump in traffic.
Anyway, I really hope we see this in the next release. My desktop will be thankful :)
I think it is more simple the way it is. Because not every picture I post comes from the web. I like to gimp pictures together sometimes. But that's a different issue.
I don't want the image I post on one of my answer or topic being removed by another site. How do argue against this statement?
I agree that when you're compositing an image, it's pretty much a necessity to upload it from your machine - it's just that 99 times out of 100 I'm just grabbing something via the web.
As for the second point, it's not directly related to uploading via hyperlink - if they want it removed, they'll ask no matter how what upload method you chose. (see http://www.grupthink.com/topic/5605#comment28144)
well maybe BUT
I usually do not take the entire jpeg. I usually edit it to the portion that I want to use.
I think that the poster would want to use the BEST image.
You would be using someone else's bandwidth.
You can upload using hyperlinks now and it doesn't take up anyone else's bandwidth. If you check you will see that all images on Grupthink have a an address of static.grupthink.com. You are only loading the image onto grupthink.
Cool. I didn't know that. I'm all for it if it works. I make or edit many of my pictures before uploading them. So both would be good to have.
:)
:-D
:p
:-)
We're smiling because this problem is solved... right?
Yep yep!
And we are happy about it!