I want to play the picture association game, and I was able to post a picture link from a website, once.

I used the mountain-sum symbol, erased the http part that shows there, and paste the link in the window.

It worked once. Now when I do it it just posts blanks.

What am I doing wrong? Am I googling the wrong sites with pictures?

To be clear, I want the picture to show up in my post, not the link.

[CepheidVariable]

That sounds like the correct procedure, assuming the link is valid and not mangled in some way.

It's possible it's occurring with sites that don't like "hot linking".

Those are sites that don't want people linking to individual objects on their pages from other web sites. Some web servers are setup to reject requests that are detected as such.


Have you asked the magical little fairy?

Thank you for your kind reply!

This was helpful. I received one more tip on pm to touch the pic (I use my phone) to open the pic to its actual url (not to use the adds of the page with an imbedded pic. I tried the option to open in new window—it worked!

And like you said, not all sites work.

The fairie and I think too much alike, unfortunately!!

[Gus1234U]

i post a LOT of pictures, and i have never discovered a way to post them directly, without using the URL encoder that is PC's way of protecting itself.