Originally Posted by
Jenbel
So KVS, do you think that moderators should maintain an account on image sharing sites simply to edit other people's images? And that we should effectively start hosting these images in our accounts for the members who wish to share these images?
Not at all -- the 'instant' image sharing services (such as
http://www.ImageShack.us/) do
not require an account of any kind. All one needs to provide is the location (URL) of the original image and the desired size.
Originally Posted by
Jenbel
Sorry, no, that to me is somewhat beyond my remit. I'm happy to pass on the advice about how to resize images to members who are having difficulty. I'm also happy to remove images from a thread which are causing problems until such time as the member has been able to resize them themselves. I think asking me to host pictures on my account for other members simply because it's my duty as a mod opens up a can of legal, ethical and personal worms.
Not sure how is it different, in principle, from editing the textual portion of someone's post,
which was posted in an excessive font size.
Member education should certainly be the preferred method, but when there is an issue with a particular post, resizing the image for the member may well take less time than editing the post and sending an explanation to that member.
So, going back to
FlyinHawaiian's point, it would really be a matter of moderators, who 'do not wish to', rather than "can't" resize...