Thanks for fixing your post, It wasn't broken or wrong, but we don't want to encourage people to do that, because images posted that way load twice and defeat the purpose of thumbnailing.
I've only done that a few times since I discovered that it was a work-around solution for the inability to insert images of relative size directly into the posts without the awful 150x150 image-resizing the forum does to external image links, which has occurred since we rebooted the forum after the 2009 Forum Fastapazool.
You make a good point about position of the image relative to text, but in a case like that, it would look better to post your attachment in a trash thread in the Off-Topic forum, then post the image-tagged link in the thread where you want it. (As we've explained before, though, if you post an image in the OTF with the intention of image-linking it in a second thread on the same day, the 1-1-1 rule applies to the image-link in the second thread because that's where you intend the image to be seen.)
Yeah, I understand the rules of your suggested work-around perfectly, however, I've never been entirely comfortable with posting a "Trash" thread simply to attach an image to a post to which I would like to link externally in another thread. I think I take that from my early forum days, at a movies forum which shall not be named, where I tended to struggle to make on-topic posts and where threads I posted were continually scrutinized by others for appropriate content and context. Not a fun way to live, if you ask me.
As an aside, do you think you mods could create an official Off-Topic Forum sticky "Trash" thread to which we users would be directed to post attachments of images which we would like to link externally in other threads. That would be, of course, provided we only post images of a reasonable size (say less than 800Wx1200H), and provided we submit links to the posts wherein our internally attached, externally linked pictures reside, subject to the 1-1-1-1 rule?
Yeah, we have a couple of conflicting scripts thumbnailing images in the forum, so images smaller than 400x400 get scaled to 250x250, and external image-links get scaled to something pathetic like 150x150. It's partly the crappy forum software and partly a modification we were testing to prevent large animated gifs from slowing down the forum. It all needs to be sorted out, but you already know what sort of timetable that will happen on.
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Well, at the very least, I'd like to see the script fixed that borks attachments smaller than 400x400 and prevents them from being made clickable by which they would be opened into our wonderful pop-up image window. It would be a start.
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