Comments on: So You Wanna Trick Out Your Profile

By: Allison

Allison — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:08:58 +0000

Thank you for this! I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to put images on my profile!!!

By: Ari

Ari — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:17:56 +0000

“The graphics may be located on Photobucket, or Flickr, or on someone’s personal website.”

This tutorial assumes that everyone you “borrow” a graphic from won’t mind you piggybacking on their bandwidth. This practice is known as “hotlinking” and is generally considered a clumsy faux pas of internet etiquette:

http://altlab.com/hotlinking.html

(If you have no idea what I’m talking about, please read the link. It explains what hotlinking is, why it’s a bad idea, how to avoid doing it, etc.)

I realize that Swap-Bot is not the most tech-savvy place, so a lot of members either don’t understand the issue or just plain don’t care. This is a little discouraging, because I like Swap-Bot very much, and I know that its members generally mean well. But people should know this: the rest of the internet considers hotlinking to be stealing.

If you’re okay with that, then fine. It’s like stealing your neighbor’s cable– your chances of actually getting caught are slim, and even if you are, it’ll probably be a slap on the wrist. But if you’re NOT okay with this, then you might want to look into this hotlinking thing and figure out how not to do it. It would be nice to have a tutorial which addresses this issue.

By: Retagene Hanslik

Retagene Hanslik — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:48:45 +0000

I think maybe this site is for people with no lives…especially after reading some of the profiles in a swap I’m signed up for. I’ve never seen another site where I couldn’t figure out how to put a picture of myself in the profile. I guess you think it’s fun to frustrate your users with your expertise, but I don’t find it amusing. I don’t sit around all day playing on my computer (I create my art on it)…and ads still appear over text after rebooting, which is a mystery since my husband is in charge of computer operations at a bond company so I have a good computer. I’m outta here.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:55:28 +0000

This is exactly what I was looking for!
Thank you so much :]

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:24:05 +0000

Hey there. I found this interactive Markdown Tutorial that I thought you might be interested in. It lets you see the HTML output real time. Just thought I’d share.

[Markdown Tutorial](http://slekx.com/the-markdown-tutorial/)

-Jim

By: Reese

Reese — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:19:43 +0000

Hi,
I am trying to use the markdown to add an image that I have on flikr, the issue is that it is not recognizing it and I was wondering if you knew how to do this?
here is what i tried: ![](http://www.flickr.com/photos/38710989@N07/3574330147/)
I think it has to do with the lack of a .jpg or .png but I am not sure how to find that on flikr?