oblivionking said:
i am confused about wat are hotlinks, can i not post links anymore?
A hotlink is actually a picture that is displayed in your post. There are two ways to display an actual picture in a post, attachments and hotlinks. You can differentiate between a hotlink and a regular link by their coding. A hotlink uses the tag and a regular link uses the [url] tag.
Using the attachment feature on Freeones, you can display any picture, even one that's on your hard drive. What happens here is the picture is uploaded to Freeones server and then displayed (after Moderator approval), thus using Freeones resources.
With a hotlink the picture is displayed in the post, but it is still located on whatever site the picture was found. So you can see the picture on Freeones but it is using the other sites resources (bandwidth). Btw, you can't hotlink a picture from your hard drive.
Also, unlike a regular link to a site, when you hotlink a picture, people who look at or download the picture never go to the site where the picture is located. This defeats the purpose of the site, which is to have people look at the pic and then see if they want join the site to look at more pics. If you never go to the site how are you even going to consider joining it. This means that a site is providing a service (letting you see a pic of a hot woman)without getting benefit of the service it's providing (you looking at their pitch for you to join their site), or you are simply stealing their bandwidth.
So, you can post links using the guidelines posted in the Official Board Rules.