We've been having trouble the past few weeks with the pictures that people are putting in their profiles and waiting room notes. 99% (or more) of these are just fine, but quite regularly someone does something which has an effect they do not intend, usually because of errors in their image HTML.
As you know, we're leaving the loophole that lets people put pictures in their descriptions open until the next big site update, which will have an official way to do this -- but we can only leave it open if it's not causing too much trouble.
If you do put pictures in your description or waiting room notes, check very carefully that you haven't caused a problem by doing so. Here's how to do this: If you put a picture in your description, go to the Who's Active page, find the line listing you, and make sure everything on and after that line looks correct. (If you're not listed, make a move in a game or log out and log back in.) If you put a picture in a waiting room note, go to the New Game page, find your new waiting room, and again make sure everything on that line and below it looks okay.
Here is the proper format for an image tag that you can use on Pocket-Monkey:
Don't put any angle brackets in the tag other than those two.
Put a space after img and before src=.
DON'T put a space on either side of the equal sign. (Yes, webmasters, you should be fine doing that but some browsers don't like it.)
Put the full path to the image in double quotes; do not leave these off. In particular, remember the closing quote!
Start the path with http://.
Refer to an image on the internet, not (say) a file on your computer. [Hint: If your path starts with file:// instead of http://, you've gone astray. ;-) ]
Don't use any variations on the above unless you really know what you're doing. We'll remove pictures causing problems. Also, be careful, some of the fields (especially the profile description) are quite short, you may not be able to get your full path in.
Other notes:
Don't post images which are more than 200 pixels by 100 pixels.
Don't post images which are more than 25k in size.
Don't post offensive images.
Don't post images which you don't know for certain you have the right to use. This is an important point. It is not true that if a picture is on a server on the internet, you can refer to it. Remember that photographs and other graphics are copyrightable (and usually copyrighted) material.
Other than that, again, we're leaving the loophole open (and there'll be an official way to do this in the next big update), so enjoy!
And many thanks to the vast majority of our players who, when they've put images on the site, have been careful to get it right. Again, we're talking 99 out of a 100 here, so thanks.
Last but not least: The answer to the question we may ask you, if you post images on Pocket-Monkey, is "Denmark."
A player pointed out a very important point which is missing from the above (thanks, BrightonEarly): The description field is very short. This means that lots of tags (including my example!) won't fit. So please double-check that your tag hasn't been chopped off at the end -- which can easily happen if you paste a tag into the field (since only the first few characters will be pasted). Chopped-off tags will cause problems on pages.
Thanks again in advance for being careful and double-checking your results, -- T.J. Crowder First Primate Pocket-Monkey.com
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