@Reyairia:
The thing is that I've mentioned it several times in the thread (and many other threads) so many times and yet people continue to ignore me. Before I would be nicer about it but now I'm starting to grow more irritated.
Quoting a link isn't thieving, since people post websites up so that they're viewed - they wouldn't have a website otherwise. Thing is that if I actually post the image, anybody who clicks the thread "views" it - regardless of whether they are interested in the image or not - and the bandwidth adds up - instead of hosting it on their own server.
Thing is that if you steal badnwidth you are a thief, yeah it sounds mean but it's the truth, regardless of whether you are aware of it or not. I'm not the kind of person to dress things up and call it nice to not hurt people's feelings. I tried doing it before and people continue to hotlink. :/
Really? Even if the image is in spoilers? But it's ok to post a direct URL as a link without the image, since actual traffic on teh site is welcomed? Interesting.
LOL I suppose I can understand your feelings, in a way, (I certainly can't claim that I've never started a sentence with "How many times have I told you…" to my kids, lol) but I hardly post here or read here, so I missed your other posts about it, and I'm guessing others are seldom viewers/posters as well. Thing is, really, that if you set yourself up to be a teacher, you need to recognize the realities of the classroom--often things need to be repeated ad nauseum, because folks missed it the first 36 million times you said it.
I suppose if it continues to irritate you, you can continue going on being irritated, and getting into these conversations with people like me upon occasion, or stop doing and let it go and let the chips fall where they may for other folks (though I myself appreciate your campaign, since I am now better informed as a result of it), or if it's that important to you, perhaps put something in your sig or start a thread or even ask a mod to institute some sort of rules with infractions imposed (good luck with that, lol--they have enough to do).
As for making things all nicey nice to avoid hurt feelings, which really is what good manners is about ninety percent of the time, I think we all have far less stressful lives when we attempt to see the other person's perspective and treat them as we would be treated, but that's me. I'm old. I appreciate anything that makes things easier and smoother for me. You, again, get to call your own shots. I myself have found that life is just too freaking short to be arguing and taking on responsibility for other people's behavior--too much stress there. You can do as you want, of course, but there are always choices---and it's hardly fair to blame others for your irritation when it's all a matter of your own choices putting you there, right? I try to remain positive, because I have found that people respond better to that and in the long run I accomplish more of what I really want to accomplish. When it gets too irritating and the negatives outweigh the positives, I let it go. Somehow the world manages to get along just fine without me in the end, anyway, lol.
Anyway, stay cool Reyairia. I'm sorta done with this, having pontificated myself into sounding quite the gasbag already, and it's not on topic here anyway.
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