Rambling Rosie's Retreat

You’re very welcome. It’s my natural curiosity coming into play as well. Along the way, I learned about “paper moon portraits”

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https://mashable.com/feature/paper-moons

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And I’ve had Nat King Cole’s version of “It’s Only a Paper Moon” in my head ever since.
Reading this post reminds me of a movie I saw as a kid. I think I was 10-12 years old and it was on the tv as a Sunday Movie. The title was "Paper Moon" and I still remember quite a lot from it and I liked it a lot! I don't know if it would be as good today or I'd be disappointed.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070510/
 
Reading this post reminds me of a movie I saw as a kid. I think I was 10-12 years old and it was on the tv as a Sunday Movie. The title was "Paper Moon" and I still remember quite a lot from it and I liked it a lot! I don't know if it would be as good today or I'd be disappointed.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070510/
The actress who played the little girl won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role in that movie.
 
Morning everyone

I see the Powers That Be have been keeping themselves occupied..

I only just learned how to link memes and nice pics too so I'm gonna have to have a think about if I can still do that. I quite like sharing little images and quotes etc as a type of shorthand for how I'm feeling. I tried to be respectful of the rules too but I can't expect the PTB to differentiate between random nonsense and potential violations of the policy.

Looks like I'm gonna have to go back to essay form again. My apologies 🤣
 
Morning everyone

I see the Powers That Be have been keeping themselves occupied..

I only just learned how to link memes and nice pics too so I'm gonna have to have a think about if I can still do that. I quite like sharing little images and quotes etc as a type of shorthand for how I'm feeling. I tried to be respectful of the rules too but I can't expect the PTB to differentiate between random nonsense and potential violations of the policy.

Looks like I'm gonna have to go back to essay form again. My apologies 🤣
Save the meme to your gallery and link it as an image
 
Morning everyone

I see the Powers That Be have been keeping themselves occupied..

I only just learned how to link memes and nice pics too so I'm gonna have to have a think about if I can still do that. I quite like sharing little images and quotes etc as a type of shorthand for how I'm feeling. I tried to be respectful of the rules too but I can't expect the PTB to differentiate between random nonsense and potential violations of the policy.

Looks like I'm gonna have to go back to essay form again. My apologies 🤣
Uh oh. What have I missed?
 
Morning everyone

I see the Powers That Be have been keeping themselves occupied..

I only just learned how to link memes and nice pics too so I'm gonna have to have a think about if I can still do that. I quite like sharing little images and quotes etc as a type of shorthand for how I'm feeling. I tried to be respectful of the rules too but I can't expect the PTB to differentiate between random nonsense and potential violations of the policy.

Looks like I'm gonna have to go back to essay form again. My apologies 🤣
Uh oh. What have I missed?

I think I see what you're talking about. Some links that were embedded, where the image actually appeared in the post, are now just links. Seems to be mainly from tumblr. In another thread that I follow, attached pics that the poster got from the internet are now gone and replaced with a "View Attachment #Whatever" link that takes you to a "Page Not Found" message. But not for all the pics taken from the internet. And I don't recall the ones that are now gone being more nude than ones still there. It's so weird.
 
I think I see what you're talking about. Some links that were embedded, where the image actually appeared in the post, are now just links. Seems to be mainly from tumblr. In another thread that I follow, attached pics that the poster got from the internet are now gone and replaced with a "View Attachment #Whatever" link that takes you to a "Page Not Found" message. But not for all the pics taken from the internet. And I don't recall the ones that are now gone being more nude than ones still there. It's so weird.
Yeah it's gonna take some adjusting too. A lot of pic threads have become link threads which is fair enough I suppose. I just wished there'd been more clarity from the site owners to the mods at least and then passed to us.
 
Yeah it's gonna take some adjusting too. A lot of pic threads have become link threads which is fair enough I suppose. I just wished there'd been more clarity from the site owners to the mods at least and then passed to us.
To me, one of the many annoying aspects of this is that the change was supposed to be about nudity. But there was no nudity in the cute and funny memes and pics that you were posting. It's like they've just decided that tumblr equals nudity, so anything from tumblr can only be a link. And, as far as I know, they've still never given their definition of nudity to those of us creating original photos. I know it's their site and their money and their decision, but just give us the guidelines so that we can understand and follow them.
 
To me, one of the many annoying aspects of this is that the change was supposed to be about nudity. But there was no nudity in the cute and funny memes and pics that you were posting. It's like they've just decided that tumblr equals nudity, so anything from tumblr can only be a link. And, as far as I know, they've still never given their definition of nudity to those of us creating original photos. I know it's their site and their money and their decision, but just give us the guidelines so that we can understand and follow them.
Yeah I have no issue personally with people posting really erotic imagery but I haven't wanted to do that here.

Yes tumblr does seem to have been targeted which is a shame. I guess there's no real way for them to filter out NSFW posts from other kinds but I wish they had at least considered other ways of hiding the content rather than these fugly links - like blurred pics for example that you need to click on to see.
 
Yeah I have no issue personally with people posting really erotic imagery but I haven't wanted to do that here.

Yes tumblr does seem to have been targeted which is a shame. I guess there's no real way for them to filter out NSFW posts from other kinds but I wish they had at least considered other ways of hiding the content rather than these fugly links - like blurred pics for example that you need to click on to see.
If there's no real way to filter NSFW posts from SFW then why make nudity where they draw the line?

This seems more of a no images at all policy...
 
If there's no real way to filter NSFW posts from SFW then why make nudity where they draw the line?

This seems more of a no images at all policy...
Well, at least for now, my own content is still there as attachments. Guess time will tell. 🫤
 
If there's no real way to filter NSFW posts from SFW then why make nudity where they draw the line?

This seems more of a no images at all policy...
Judging from JaF0's post in 2023 the plan was always to ban all pictures from the site to turn it into a text only site.
 
Mine isn't

I've obviously broken the rules badly but as seems normal for lit, they won't tell you what you've done.

It can't be the no nudity policy. So they must have changed other shit without any notification to the users
I don't think I've ever seen you break the rules. You share your own pics. The ones of yourself are arty and tasteful too.
Are they gunning for all of ampics then?
 
Yeah it's gonna take some adjusting too. A lot of pic threads have become link threads which is fair enough I suppose. I just wished there'd been more clarity from the site owners to the mods at least and then passed to us.

I do promise that if we get specific instructions that I will post about it. To date, we only have Manu’s announcement as well.

I don’t spend a lot of time scrolling through images here unless I get pulled into a thread based on reports. But I am familiar with your posts and SaltFountain’s and I’m shocked to see you two lose the ability to attach images.
 
But I am familiar with your posts and SaltFountain’s and I’m shocked to see you two lose the ability to attach images.
@RosewoodTulip and @Saltfountain, have you both lost the ability to attach images, meaning that you no longer have the “Attach files” button as an option at the bottom left of your reply window? Or are you using the “Insert image” button at the top of the window and, instead of embedding the photo from your link, it’s just pasting the link itself into the message? I think this second situation is happening to almost everyone. It appears that any link from tumblr or giphy is automatically being displayed as a link only. I’m sure it’s happening with images from other sites as well. My past understanding of losing photo posting privileges was that the “Attach files” button was removed from the reply window. Just trying to clarify what is happening to people.

ETA: I just tried to use the “Insert Image” button to insert a non-nude image from imgbb and got an error message that “Image cannot be loaded from the passed link”. So it won’t even convert it to posting just the link. It doesn’t even recognize the link as valid anymore.
 
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@RosewoodTulip and @Saltfountain, have you both lost the ability to attach images, meaning that you no longer have the “Attach files” button as an option at the bottom left of your reply window? Or are you using the “Insert image” button at the top of the window and, instead of embedding the photo from your link, it’s just pasting the link itself into the message? I think this second situation is happening to almost everyone. It appears that any link from tumblr or giphy is automatically being displayed as a link only. I’m sure it’s happening with images from other sites as well. My past understanding of losing photo posting privileges was that the “Attach files” button was removed from the reply window. Just trying to clarify what is happening to people.
I have that option still but I've never actually used it. I've only ever shared my own stuff from something like imgbb or linked from a different site.

Yes so with say giphy I've posted from there through the link option and tumblr pic links are/were through the one next to it.

I haven't tried posting anything since these new changes came about but I might have a little trial soon just to see what I can still share, if anything
 
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