You know, I gotta pipe up here.  I like looking at pics, and I love airplanes, but enough of the linking to Airliners.  If I wanted to look through Airliners.net, I would go there and browse.  I come here to see what photos the members of SimV have to offer.  This is not Airliners branch office... 

perhaps we could post them all in one thread, here in the photos forum?

i know what you guys mean, with this, this forum gets a bit messed up with all the new topics popping up, giving us just one link. on the other hand, when someone found a nice photo in the Anet database, i also want to see it...because sometimes they really can be amazing. therefore i suggest just to put it all in one topic...maybe a moderator can give his opinion about this, but i think if you are going to forbid people posting links to Anet, you also have to say no to alot of other things. 

I think its the new method for boosting post numbers Kevin. Agreed its getting a bit much. The only A-Net links I've posted were of shots I'd had published.
I mean its not like we don't know what certain aircraft look like

Mark

Any time I find a nice picture over there, I actually copy, paste and upload to here. One thing I can't stand is clicking on a post and then just seeing a url!

Kevin has brought up a real good point. It does seem as of recently this has been happening alto, and if I want to look at Airliners.net shots, I have them bookmarked too. Most of the shots linked I have seen already any way. Don't most of us really just look at what was loaded within the last 24 hours anyway??

We have tossed this over to the new "Admin Forum" and your mods have been up all night burning the midnight oil trying to come to a conclusion..........yeah right!    Seriously, we are discussing it.

Thanks Kevin for bringing this up!

Dave

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Carl (+ all),

Hummmmmm.  Why do we "need" A-Net links in this regard?  A-Net is already a net resource that is very valuable, for sure.  But it is not like it is not already accessible to anyone who ALSO has access to SimV.

I could see a link or a picture re-posting in a forum thread (assuming it is within copyright "fair use") if it related to a specific detailed discussion of something about details of that picture.... like maybe the exact placement or type of instrument on a control panel or a detail about recreating a new paint job for a plane, or something like that.

But just a picture for a nice picture's sake seems supurflous and a waste of both general intenet bandwidth and Pete's server space ...... when it is already easily available elsewhere.

Just my $0.02 worth on the subject.

best,

...................john

It's been something I've been noticing for some time & have though about contacting people who just seem to post links ...

At the end of the day this is meant to be a forum where folk post their OWN shots - not others ...

So - get clicking or just ... watch  ...

& really that's it.....

Don't take it personal.  You are not the only one doing it, so these comments are not directed at you only.  SimV is a very relaxed place and every opinion is pretty much enjoyed and respected here.  The intention is not to cause hard feelings...