drewalt:
Skald:
And that would be a no, for all the reasons given every time this comes up - we'd have absolutely no control over whether an image was offensive or copyrighted.
I sincerely mean no offense, but this response genuinely baffles me. The site already has links to remotely hosted images that the administrators and moderators have not previously approved, and the power to suspend/ban/flag accounts which link to inappropriate images would not be removed under this proposal.
No, but it just has the potential to make the damage more widespread if misused, and lessens the ability of GMs to help police inappropriate images.
Anyone who wants to use an externally hosted image in their posts currently already has the ability. With the use of the in game scratchpad to hold the code, the effort required, should someone want to do it, is, IMO, pretty minimal.
Most of the sites that do allow people to use any image for an avatar allow one avatar .... that is used for every game the user is in, and using code to import their 'character' pic in any post they want it in is the norm. Of the sites I've used, only 2 give the user the ability to use multiple pics simultaneously, and the other site is set up pretty much like RPoL in that regard.