@snood,
I would love to make some of the images I post smaller but that is not going to happen. I get those images from my liberal news outlets and bloggers on Facebook. If I were to try and make them smaller I would need to download the image, edit it and post it on an image hosting site like photobucket. Photobucket has a limit to how many images one can post there "free" then what happens is your oldest images suddenly are no longer active. So someone comes into this blog months later and all that would be here are inactive images.
If an image is too large I have the option of simply not posting it. Sometimes the content of the image is so relevant I say why not post it anyway. It is the bloggers and news agencies who pay to keep these linked images up nearly indefinitely.
Google has recently offered free unlimited image space. The problem with that is moving each image there and then editing it and then posting it here is a time consuming process. 80% of my time I spend making music. For now people will have to put up with occasionally a too large image. These images and cartoons are kept in the cloud and for me to edit them would mean they are in the cloud twice. Also they are not images I own the rights to edit. Facebook news sites are for the most part good at keeping the images small. I every day see less and less large images.
For a time Richard Dawkins was notorious for posting images that were too large, he has caught on too that Facebook recommends a certain smaller size image. But I often posted his images because they are some of the richest in intellectual content.
Rarely do I ever make my own graphics. The ones supplied daily on Facebook, and I see sometimes a thousand a day represent my own political leanings just fine. I only repost a tiny fraction of what I see.
When I see one that I feel will be appreciated here I simply repost it.
It is like telling Bobsal to keep his posts short.
He reposts news stores that often the link to them is elusive. So his posts are sometimes verbose in text. I look more to the content of his posts rather than the length. I am just glad Bobsal finds it in his daily schedule to post here and for that I am truly grateful.
No political party pays me to post here or anywhere else on the net.
I have many times refrained from posting images that are too large. Sometimes I have posted images too large. It depends on how rare a find I think the image is an how succinctly it explains current events in my mind.
So it is "a large courtesy" considering I would have to jump through hoops in order so you don't have to scroll. I hope your scroll finger does not get tired having to scroll past all the images I had to not only scroll through but then to maneuver to this page also. Rather than looking a gift horse in the mouth why not simply be grateful that someone is feeding this forum with vital items of content that advance the liberal cause?
You can complain to A2K and they can build into their software image resizing technology that Facebook already utilizes. Facebook resizes all images in your feed but keeps the original image size for download or linking. It is a much more complicated than you think and notice everyone else who posts images here also has the occasional large image to deal with in the very same way.
There is not much I will be willing to do other than keep plodding along as I have done and omitting large images except in some rare cases.
I am connected to over 10,000 news agencies on Facebook and it took me nearly 10 years to gather them all. So believe me I could be reposting images and news stories all day. I repost only a very tiny fraction of what I see. I post them to invoke discussion and learn from other minds. Rather than shooting the, volunteer messenger, consider focusing on the content of the images and adding some kind of response that gives the image (too large or too small) some credence. (Beauty is only skin deep.)
All the best to you Snood.
It must be nice too having the nasty republicans vote up your criticisms of me... (cynical)
