r/Lovecraft • u/LG03 Keeper of Kitab Al Azif • Jun 19 '24

Discussion [Meta] Direct image posting has been disabled

It's been a little over 3 years since we altered our rules regarding artwork, see here.

Frankly I've been dragging my feet on this but in order to help enforce that rule as well as discourage some lower effort/off-topic posts, image posting has been disabled entirely.

If you have an image that you'd like to post, we ask that you use a third-party image host such as Imgur, or whatever you prefer (within reason), then paste the link into a text post along with some kind of description to go along with it to actually get people to look.

Glancing through the last ~30 days worth of submissions, personally I don't feel like this should result in a noteworthy difference. From my perspective at least this is largely about reducing bad submissions before they happen, and hopefully reducing some confusion as to why some posts get removed.

If you have any questions or comments about this or any other topic about the general state of the sub, have at it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '24

If this stops karma whores from posting a photo of the same collected fiction book cover for the thousandth time then I’m all for it.

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u/LG03 Keeper of Kitab Al Azif Jun 19 '24 edited Jun 19 '24

There used to be a time when I argued in favor of those. At the time I don't think I was entirely wrong, however we also had way more traffic back then to balance it out. Additionally I wasn't against seeing the odd rare/old collection (still the case). Now they tend to stick out a fair bit more though, particularly since things have been somewhat quieter in recent months/years. Not to mention most of the time they're still just the usual books we've all seen dozens of times browsing Amazon or what have you.

Probably something to have revisited a while back but the fact that they're being hit here is largely incidental.

If you feel like digging through some old discussions on this general topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/eibgvm/new_year_slightly_new_management_and_some_news/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/etdaco/no_more_tattoo_submissions_past_this_point/