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there are two ways to put pictures in your post. The first is to use the (IMG) button a inserting the URL where the photo is hosted online. unfortunately, this depends on the permissions on the host site being correct, and on the forum’s spam filter being set To allow the transaction when folks use the link.
The spam filter is apparently currently set to borderline paranoid level.
It seems to be rejecting some posts with links in them. I finally had to just allude to links for a couple posts this weekend. I believe One of the forum hosts has mentioned this and they are working on it.
You can avoid the issue if you actually upload the file from your machine ( or the cloud) to the forum as an attachment using the (Select File) button under the window you type in. Menus work you through it.
With that method, you will get a link in the body of the message wherever your cursor is with a thumbnail attachment after the message.
The advantage is that the forum’s resources are doing the actual hosting, and not your host site. Once it is uploaded, anybody can see it, even if where you host the image online is deleted.