Weekly Report: Pulling an Image Switcharoo

Announcements - The Conduit (Wii) Game Night brought a lot of shooter fanatics together last night. Congrats to Gregdawg08 for receiving the MVP for the week. - Next Tuesday's Game Night will be Battlefield 1943 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation. - The Mod of the Month for July goes to MAILER_DAEMON. It was a tie between Mailer_Daemon and cell_dweller; staff had to break the tie with their own votes. If given the chance to vote as a volunteer moderator, who would you have voted for? Place your vote. - We have some more Cities XL beta keys to hand out. Drop by the competition forum for further details. - Show Us Yours contest winners were contacted in late June. Be sure to congratulate them! Stevo_the_gamer and Wolf-5. - We are aware that the user video player is currently down. We apologize for the inconvience during this time. Member Spotlight: Safad0 This week's member spotlight goes to Safad0 for creating the ten commandments for developers. Check out his recent blog for the editorial. User Reviews - Damnation (PC) dark_being - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (PS2) Maluigi - Prototype (PC) nutcracker - God of War: Chains of Olympus (PSP) Setho10 - Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (DS) bluej33 - Master of Monsters (Genesis) 3KindgomsRandy - Punch-Out!! (Wii) Garrison_Ford - Road &amp; Track Presents: The Need for Speed (PS) Jedo - Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 (PS2) Lightfellower - Beowulf (X360) zh666 Randomness Teh Awesome - The HotSpot homework emblem winner: Marterfarker. - GameSpot Retro DVDs: To clean out our storage we are giving away some 2003-2004 GameSpot DVDs while supplies last. - Bluegreen17 answers why everyone wants Scribblenauts. - Shacks210 is a Socom series fan who posted a blog and a Socom map comparison. - wiiplay1 has posted an article about the state of Nintendo. - pakhair posted a birthday blog that also has a dedication to many GameSpot members. He lists people who have been helpful and those who frequently post.- shoujobot shares his Wii experience with tons of neighbors and answers whether or not the Wii is a good console for small living environments. - nichavgo talks about a simple game like Minesweeper. Tip of the Week Have you ever considered linking another Web site's image in a forum post or blog? Some Web sites do not appreciate people who drain their bandwidth. The larger the population of a community, especially as big as our site, the more likely the bandwidth will be a problem to these Web sites. We occasionally have some users who post these image URLs and some of these Web sites replace the image with offensive content that will have the account terminated. Today's tip of the week is about how you can link to images on GameSpot or an image provider to avoid having a Web site pull the filthy-image switcharoo on you! First, let's explain how you can add an image to your GameSpot Image gallery as described by siberian142 from the How To GameSpot forum. Note that sometimes the image uploader can take up to 20 minutes to display in your profile. ========================== The Images section of your profile allows you to upload your images to your profile, similar to an image hosting site. Uploading Images Go to the Images sections of your profile and click Upload Images. You'll be taken to this page. Select a file from your hardrive to upload to Gamespot. Album: Select which album to add an image to. To create a new album, click Create New Album underneath. Title: Select a name for your image--32 characters max. Association: Choose the association your image best relates to. Selecting Game will add it to the Image section of a gamespace. Description: Describe your image. Tag: Tagging your image will make it appear in a search when searching for the words you tag. After you're done filling out the form, click Upload. If done correctly, your image will be processing and will be available shortly. You can check your image process by going to the album you added it to. ========================== If you would like to upload your image using another service, check Gallego's post in the How To GameSpot forum. As always, if you have problems in any area of GameSpot's community, report the problem to Technical Support. Until next week!

Weekly Report: Pulling an Image Switcharoo

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