Mark:

Thanks for posting this message, and it seems that you have shouldered most of the burden in dealing with these messages, as Admin.

I am not sure whether our forum software changed something, or whether PhotoBucket changed something, but it has been a real problem for the last several weeks.

Thanks to everyone for checking / previewing the postings, to ease the burden on the Administrators.

Jeff

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The forum has a policy to send all posts with URL links in to approval limbo, so you are not inundated for links to replica watches (one of which I have just deleted, so it does happen), blue diamond-shaped enhancement drugs, operations for member improvement and the like.

As well as making those sit waiting approval so the forumgoers never have to see them, it also makes helpful and interesting posts with nice watches go byebye if you use a URL image link and we would like you to see those.

The current biggest culprit is Photobucket. If you can't get a direct link from Photobucket and must use the URL link, please spend a little time editing the post to remove the first part in square brackets containing [ URL - link ] and the ending bit with [ / URL ]. The middle bit with [ img] is all you need.

It may be a little boring to have to do that, but please imagine how boring it is for the admins to do that for 15 or 20 posts in a row. If you need a hint, it is:

a) tremendously boring

and

b) not something I can see us wanting to do ad infinitum

So please spend just a little time editing those out of your post and everyone will see your post immediately and not be subjected to dodgy adverts either.

Thanks!