Sharing images is a form of self expression and creativity that rivals words in our hobby and others.  It's with this interest that AVSIM is pleased to announce a new set of image policies which allow for more self expression and creativity!

 

If images are hosted by AVSIM:

• No more than 10 images per post
• Image weight and size restrictions remain the same
• Image will now be allowed to be stored for 120 days, rather than 90

If images are hosted by a another site:

• Up to 20 images per post
• Images will be forced to a maximum of 1024 pixels wide when displayed in the forum (or a size smaller as to not exceed the width of the reader's monitor) - clicking on image will display the original image size
• No limit on weight (but poster should forewarn readers of large images)

Overall changes no matter whether uploaded or hosted elsewhere:

• In the Screenshot forum, images can appear in subsequent posts in a topic, however first message in topic MUST include images

The full image posting policy is available at this link for your review.

 

Overall changes no matter whether uploaded or hosted elsewhere:

Images can appear in subsequent posts in a topic, however first message in topic MUST include images

 

Is it correct to assume, this rule only applies to the Screenshot forum? As screenshots used in the main forums, are usually responses to other peoples posts as an informative tool to a question or problem they may have, and as such an image may not be present in the first post by the OP?

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Images can/will/may/have appear(ed) in many posts across all the forums for a variety of reasons.  A majority of image sharing occurs in the Screenshots forum--however, we don't rule out the occurrences elsewhere for creative and illustrative purposes (ie showing off a panel gauge malfunction in a support forum, showing random images in the hangar chat, etc.)

I'm glad to hear AVSIM will allow more images to be posted if they are hosted elsewhere.   I had recently submitted a post with about 17 images, and although it was my fault for not paying attention to the rules, I felt at the time the rule was unnecessarily harsh being that the photos took up no AVSIM server space.