Speaking from consensus of admin/moderators…
When a photo is uploaded as an attachment, it is automatically downsized. Example: a 4.8MB phone picture is roughly 95Kb once uploaded. Attached photos are stored on Marty’s servers. Ones that are externally linked are stored on that link (Flickr, Photobucket, your PC, etc). They do not take up space on the OB servers.
The upload limit was created by the owner, Marty. The last update of any settings was over five years ago, probably longer. Moderator understanding is server storage limitations and possibly an incentive to become a forum supporter.
None of us can remember anyone having this issue in the past. When one considers the number of users the forum has or has attracted in the past and considering we don’t delete old posts as many forums do to save space, it is a significant amount of data held on the servers. Allowing a higher quota would over time add a significantly increased amount of data.
I also note, SouthPark, that you very often post numerous pictures three different ways. A recent thread that comes to mind is your Rlc. Memoria Helen Brown ‘Sweet Afton.” Posting numerous pictures three different ways readily uses up your storage limitations and is really unnecessary.
Moderators have guidelines regarding the reason for creating a new account. It is very much discouraged, for numerous reasons and allowed only in certain circumstances upon consensus of the moderators/admin. Doing it to circumvent the Board’s settings is of course not a good reason. You basically have three options:
- Pay to be a forum supporter
- Post links only to externally stored photos
- Manually go through your posts and delete excess and/or duplicate attachments from oldest or least informative threads. You would be the one to edit and do this, as there’s no quick fix on the admin side to do so. This would lower your 70MB aggregate storage issue.
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