Post to wide?

[B CAMP]

I have a question on some of the post they seem to be very wide you have to slide it to read the line ,is this a setting on mine or is this happening to others

[lovemyfinch]

Happening to me too. I was wondering the same thing.

[L in Ontario]

Ditto here!

[the.puppeteer]

It's due to some REALLY big pictures I believe. Usually the original pics resize themselves, but when people quote with the original pic included it ends up massive!

-Julie

[Sally]

I PMd Crystal and Hilary, as I can't figure out how to correct it. It seems to be when people do a quote, including a photo. The 'quoted photo' is huge, while the original photo is normal size. I was hoping I could edit the 'quoted photo' and get it back to the original size, but nothing works so far. On a few posts, where the 'quoted photo' was really not needed, I have just deleted the photos out of the quote.

If I get enough interest on this, I could delete all 'quoted photos' for now, which would return all posts to normal width. I know, it is a pain to have to scroll back and forth!

[B CAMP]

Well I am glad that I am not the only one,I just thought it could be me It don't happen all the time

[mickp]

I have experienced this problem on another forum.

Sally, to correct this you will need to edit each post that is doing this or have the person who created the post edit it.
the cause is as Julie said, the pictures are too big.
you need to either have Crystal or Hilary set a maximum picture size, I think 640 x 480 is about the biggest you can have safely.
If Crystal & Hilary are unable to set a maximum size you will need to have a warning put up somewhere that every member will see & read it which states the maximum size of a picture. It is then up to members posting pictures to make sure that they have reduced the size before uploading them.

[L in Ontario]

If I get enough interest on this, I could delete all 'quoted photos' for now, which would return all posts to normal width. I know, it is a pain to have to scroll back and forth!

I don't think you can change the size of a "quoted photo" so I vote to delete all "quoted photos" - since those photos would be already posted in the thread. People can simply scroll up to see the photo (if necessary); usually it's just the comment that's required in the quote. Much better to scroll up to look at a previously posted photo then to have to scroll across to read each line in a post. Thanks!

[dfcauley]

And Sally....... Thanks for all you do!!!!!

[Ursula]

I have experienced this problem on another forum.

Sally, to correct this you will need to edit each post that is doing this or have the person who created the post edit it.
the cause is as Julie said, the pictures are too big.
you need to either have Crystal or Hilary set a maximum picture size, I think 640 x 480 is about the biggest you can have safely.
If Crystal & Hilary are unable to set a maximum size you will need to have a warning put up somewhere that every member will see & read it which states the maximum size of a picture. It is then up to members posting pictures to make sure that they have reduced the size before uploading them.

If you attach pictures in the forum directly (with that new feature, instead of photo bucket) there IS a maximum size, and I found it quite small. I can't imagine that you can restrict the size of a picture for which you just embed a link to another site though...

I agree it would be good to advise everybody to delete the pictures from their quotes, or don't respond to a post with a picture using the quote function at all but use just the normal response button.

[Sally]

Thanks for the input--I will go thru the topics looking for quoted photos that are too wide and delete them. However, I won't be doing that till tonight--right now I need to get outside and do some lawn work before it hits 100 (heat index of 110!), then this afternoon I have got to clean this messy house! If I won the lottery, forget the fancy cars and jewelry--I want a cook and a maid!!

[Pukasand]

Thank goodness someone else is having problems, too. I just chalked it up my being 'computer challenged'.

[CandoAviary]

I don't really understand why people put the quote in thier answers/replies in the first place..... I mean we just read what the person said....must we read it again? I think the average person of intelligence can follow a series of post without constantly having to be referred to what She just said.....He just said.... They just said..... Most post on this forum rarely go past 3 pages anyway.... if you took all the repeated quotes out it would probably consist of 1 page...
If you just got rid of the whole quote thing then no problems with the pictures or the repetitive paragraphs....
But then again if I develope a memory problem then I may be needed to be reminded of what was just said 4 lines ago

Cando said:
I don't really understand why people put the quote in thier answers/replies in the first place..... I mean we just read what the person said....must we read it again? I think the average person of intelligence can follow a series of post without constantly having to be referred to what She just said.....He just said.... They just said..... Most post on this forum rarely go past 3 pages anyway.... if you took all the repeated quotes out it would probably consist of 1 page...
If you just got rid of the whole quote thing then no problems with the pictures are the repetitive paragraphs....
But then again f I develope a memory problem then I may be needed to be reminded of what was just said 4 lines ago

Yeah, that's what I just said. This I guess is a pet peeve of mine... but I look at it this way..... if you can tolerate it then do....If not ...log off.

[L in Ontario]

I don't really understand why people put the quote in thier answers/replies in the first place.....

Typically I will quote parts of a persons posting if I want to respond to one particular point they've made. That way people reading my post will understand that I'm not responding to the entire post but just one or two points made.

[CandoAviary]

Now that would make a lot of sense, a quick way of making a reference to a point. I was referring to the whole post and the reposting of the same pictures over and over again.

I could figure out what you were referring to in my post by simply reading your response. Just like I am sure people reading this post will understand what I am referring to simply by the subject matter contained within. But I guess it could be helpful to some. A help in following the thread, especially if it gets high jacked and off track of the original point of the subject. Like this one.................