Previews in my thread

I hope this is the right place for a poll as I can't add it to my thread. Well here it is:

Should I reduce the size of my previews so they are in line with the Rules or post thumbnails?
Everybody's got an opinion. What's yours?

I prefer big images in the post, so you dont have to click the thumbnails, change the browser-tab, weit till its loaded, watch it, change back, look for the downloadlink, .... .. so keep it on , even if you have to reduce size due to the rules

Hi Alex,
give it a try to post previews not larger than 650 x 1300 pixels. I tested it and I think 650 x 1300 is large enough for everybody to decide wether you want to download a file or not.
It's better than posting only thumbnails.
Or do it as I do. I normally post a big preview and a thumbnail in case one fails (as BigPicHost at the moment).
"Just leave it, we don't want your posts" is not a choice.

Thumbnails suck ...all the backwards and forwarding just too see a preview is crap...still with you on you're curtailing your uploads...I can't believe the mods can't come to compromise over this as the whole point of the forum is uploads and they are driving you away from that purpose...it seems contrary to what the forum should be about........

I have discussed this with ret.aleksander and he has convienently forgot to give all arguments why we like the large but limited sized previews.
IMO ret.aleksander is a very egotistic person who doesn't care for his fellow surfers who are less fortuned with fast internet connection.
Displaying one (1) page could be a matter of minutes and not seconds.
He makes it impossible for moderators to perform their dutys in a nice and proper way.
When we like to display such a multipage topic in a singlepage mode with all posts in subsequent order, where it is possible to select just some but not all posts and split them into a new topic, the display takes so long that it times out and gives an error - session invalid.
That leaves us with no choise other than delete the posts, rather than just split and move them.
This I have explained to ret.aleksander but he doesn't listen.
The poll has been canceled as unnecessery.

The rules and guidelines that where launched on May 18 2008 has been formed after a lot of consideration.
At one time we wanted to forbid hotlinking of preview images completly and only allow them to be presented in a codebox.
The same for download links. Codebox only.
Thus minimising the risc of having the forum exposed thrue the referrer tracking.
There are several hostssites that have blocked the hotlinking from here.
One is for example pixnofrag that I had as my regular pichost.
They have disabled us, so therefore we have put them - off - the permitted list.
Putting previews and download links in a codebox would have made a very dull looking forum.

You have all had 5 months to adapt and follow those rules and guidelines.
Now the time have come to make sure they are implemented.
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Ok, I will post smaller previews from now on. Shame you deleted the poll, svinto, I wanted to know what people think about full size previews vs thumbnails
Sorry for all the problems I caused for moderators here.

On the matter of what people prefer thumbs or large there are no doubth.
Large. The poll was unnecessery. Hence the deletion.
I haven't argued against large previews.
I have argued against oversized previews.
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Ahh, now i understand the replys over in ret.aleksander's thread. The discussion is here ...

I guess i understand the mods problem, svinto, and as far as i know this forum software (as i've been told), big previews (and slow hosters) are a serious problem for the mods to do their work proper. And it honors you to argue like that, svinto.
So it would have been better to make this guideline (650x1300 pixel) a rule, or limit the size of the big previews ( may result in some "how to" how to make big previews smaller in size, but as i can sometimes see, this would be helpful for the thumbnails too)
I think most of the posters could live with that restriction, it's big enough. And even if the monitors mostly have an aspect ratio of 4:3, it's better to view in a thread if the picture is 2:4 or 2:5.
As rudmol said, a small big preview as a teaser and a thumbnail for those who are interested in more seems to be the best compromise.
Well, ret.aleksander, maybe you should think of using another tool to make your big previews (get me right, just an idea).
As i started posting i only had the previews from MPC, but too often you have pics with no info (like the guys head or something). Now i mostly use ImageGrabber 2 and let it make (let's say) 30 pics and then i delete the ones who are not good. Then make a jpg of it, resize it, and it's done. It take a bit more time, that's right.
And i'm sorry to say so, svinto, i don't think ret.aleksander is egoistic because he's expecting an a least medium internet connection speed. Mostly the imagehosters are the problem not your connection speed and i don't think any surfer will get happy here with an old telephone cable connection (as i once had not long ago) of 56kbits. If this would be the point, it would also be egoistic to post a 700Mb full-HD movie.

So, ret.aleksander, maybe think about resizing your previews or adding a full-size thumbnail but please don't stop posting here, i think nobody wants that consequence.