If I may, and I mean no offense by this I genuinely do not grasp the reasoning here. Clearly there's something I don't understand here that is obvious to others and I am just trying to suss it out; it helps me follow better when I internalize the concept.
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No, but it just has the potential to make the damage more widespread if misused, and lessens the ability of GMs to help police inappropriate images.
In what way? I just tested this in a game and it appears I am able to change or remove portraits, remove player's ability to post, delete posts, hide posts and threads, etc. I don't see what a player can do that's going with an avatar image to be a problem, the controls are so comprehensive and well thought out. All of the reporting mechanisms were also available to me in case I had something I needed to report.
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Anyone who wants to use an externally hosted image in their posts currently already has the ability. With the use of the in game scratchpad to hold the code, the effort required, should someone want to do it, is, IMO, pretty minimal.
True, but that was kind of my point. What's the functional difference between putting it on one field versus the other? This is where I don't understand why it's okay on the right side of the screen but not in the margin on the left.
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Most of the sites that do allow people to use any image for an avatar allow one avatar .... that is used for every game the user is in, and using code to import their 'character' pic in any post they want it in is the norm. Of the sites I've used, only 2 give the user the ability to use multiple pics simultaneously, and the other site is set up pretty much like RPoL in that regard.
Okay this I sort of follow, but I have used sites where you can post as multiple users with separate names, avatars and signatures on the same account as well, so I still don't follow.
If I understand html correctly, and I may not because my ability to use it is both A) self taught and B) extremely limited, here's how I understand how the portrait function basically works.
The code of the site, where the avatar is supposed to be, has a tag there <img> or whatever, that points to the image's URL. Basically when you pick a portrait from the gallery, all that's really happening is the little piece of code is changing, but when the browser executes the code it knows that little tag means "Show a picture which is stored here".
It's basically like a drop down select menu or "pick field" in an Access form or Excel cell, essentially. Basically, if I change one of the options in the pick list, it appears as an option in the field.
Would it not be possible instead to save a text string of whatever URL as a variable, and simply let one of the drop down options be that variable field?
Or is that like some kind of coding kerfuffle where it just doesn't work like that?