Should I be worried?

**Grizzly** · 24th October 13, 04:05 AM

Jock I have to agree with Richard above, it largely depends on whether you have "shared" your pictures on Photobucket. It is a public website used for photo sharing which means that anyone could "steal" your photos and republish them elsewhere. In general that is not a problem unless there are photos that you dont want to be made public in which case you are better off just storing them elsewhere such as a separate hard drive, flash drive or backed up to CD.
Also never store photos on a photosharing website at full resolution. PC screens only need 72ppi to render a decent image on a screen whereas a print will need a minimum of 200-300 ppi for decent quality. I know this is a bit technical as most people just download what is on their cameras, but it does pay to be a bit savvy about these things.

In short dont upload on to photobucket or flickr anything that you dont want anyone to see or "borrow".

**Father Bill** · 24th October 13, 04:43 AM

If you give the key to your house to the cleaning lady, who's to say she didn't make copies for her friends? If you give your photos to somebody else to keep for you, who's to say . . . .

**Jock Scot** · 24th October 13, 05:14 AM

Originally Posted by Father Bill

If you give the key to your house to the cleaning lady, who's to say she didn't make copies for her friends? If you give your photos to somebody else to keep for you, who's to say . . . .

As I have said, there is nothing on my photobucket account that I am personally worried about, but I take your point Bill. I also realised that pictures of mine, once they are stored on photobucket, become "puplic property" of a kind. What I did not realise is how easy access was by "clicking on" a published picture on a website such as this one. Again, I personally am not concerned at the content of my photobucket collection. Most are my personal pictures, some-----a very few-----are off the internet anyway and many of my pictures have been seen on this website at one time or another, but-----------BUT------------ there is a wider question here.

Are the management here(xmarks) going to be upset at the "rule 11" content there? Talking more widely, what about assorted rule breaking pictures stored in good faith on other members photobucket accounts, that could be accessed via the similar route? ----- Just wondering?

**Calgacus** · 24th October 13, 05:28 AM

I would have thought that since the act of clicking on the link to Photobucket navigates the user away from the X-Marks website, any content (other than that directly linked to) would not be covered by the rules.

In other words, if I link to a Photobucket picture here, I must abide by the rules with regards to that photo because I am posting a link to and/or displaying a copy of that image here on X-Marks. Once a user follows that link to Photobucket, they are 'outside the jurisdiction' of X-Marks, and my images must abide by the rules of Photobucket instead.

That would be my interpretation of the situation anyway, though of course the Moderators may correct me.

**Jock Scot** · 24th October 13, 05:36 AM

Originally Posted by Calgacus

I would have thought that since the act of clicking on the link to Photobucket navigates the user away from the X-Marks website, any content (other than that directly linked to) would not be covered by the rules.

In other words, if I link to a Photobucket picture here, I must abide by the rules with regards to that photo because I am posting a link to and/or displaying a copy of that image here on X-Marks. Once a user follows that link to Photobucket, they are 'outside the jurisdiction' of X-Marks, and my images must abide by the rules of Photobucket instead.

That would be my interpretation of the situation anyway, though of course the Moderators may correct me.

That is my thinking too. But knowing how inordinately touchy------ I do speak from long and first hand experience here------ the mods and the owner of this website are on "Rule 11" subjects, for example, it must understandably, raise a question for them. There are other more "adult type" pictures that could possibly be accessed through this route, so the situation does raise wider questions, I think.

**GRKilt** · 24th October 13, 05:34 AM

I read Rule 11 as a "don't discuss it here" rule. It would be odd to apply that rule so broadly as to affect your other internet activity. It would probably also be practically unenforceable as who would want to click through all the external links to make sure the are Xmarks safe?

it may be different if you started a thread on Xmarks that said, hey, check out my blog to see me Rule 11 in a kilt. That would probably warrant Rule 11 enforcement as to the individual thread. But not the blog.

**California Highlander** · 24th October 13, 05:51 AM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

Are the managent here(xmarks) going to be upset at the "rule 11" content there? Talking more widely, what about assorted rule breaking pictures stored in good faith on other members photobucket accounts, that could be accessed via the similar route? ----- Just wondering?

Jock, I think that once any of us click and leave XMarks and go to your Photobucket, we are then under the rules of Photobucket and what you have chosen to share. Just as if there is a link to a BBC story that has a sidebar featuring some rule 11 topic.

**artificer** · 24th October 13, 06:39 AM

Jock,
I'm not an "internet lawyer" but I'm 100% with California Highlander here.
As long as they don't link DIRECTLY to objectionable content they should be safe to post.

I think we're all big lads here and understand that the internet is a bit like the jungle,
if you go off the path whatever you discover is at your own risk.

You can always restrict permissions on your various photos and folders to either 'private' or with password protection.

I use both for various in-development project pictures that I only wish Commissioners to see.

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**Father Bill** · 24th October 13, 06:58 AM

Jock, I'm NOT speaking as a member of the moderation team here, merely as an individual, but I for one would not be upset thereby. For your own peace of mind, go check your privacy settings (knowing that these sites sometimes change their policies after the fact - something I find offensive) and then let it rest. I doubt if anybody would be likely to file a complaint, and if in the unlikely situation that they do, we'll see what happens.

Go have a shot of whisky!

**Llama** · 24th October 13, 07:45 AM

When you copy a link directly from photobucket using the HTML or IMG field that they provide, they also include a link to the picture on Photobucket.
[URL=http://s225.photobucket.com/user/jockscot07/media/willsoldpictures261.jpg.html]
[IMG]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd33/jockscot07/willsoldpictures261.jpg[/IMG]
[/URL]

If you'd want to just show the image, you can just use the stuff in the IMG tags:
[IMG]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd33/jockscot07/willsoldpictures261.jpg[/IMG]

Or copy the address from the "direct" field in Photobucket and paste it in the "Insert image" function here.

Here are the differences: