how many post before you can PM?

Quote from rapstone : So actually there is no determined number of posts to be posted before I can send and receive PMs?

Not one that the mods will tell us, no. That's to deter would-be spammers that would sign up, post the required number of posts to gain their PM privileges and then spam the living heck out of the users. (and yes, PM spamming does happen!)

But the restrictions don't usually last too long. Days or so, maybe a week or two, etc., depending on your posting and participation in the forums. (And yes, asking questions like this one does count as participating ). So just post or participate as you normally would and the restrictions will lift fairly soon. Even though you just joined today, you've already got a couple of posts under your belt, so it probably won't be very much longer for you. And welcome to SD!

(oh, and once you do gain those PM privileges, remember that at first you will most likely have a 1 PM limit, including both sent and received. See my post above here regarding this.)

Hey. I thought I saw this question before but I could find it. So if anyone could point me in the right direction.

How do you post pictures so they are the full size vs the small thumbnails that you have to click on to enlarge?

Thanks in advance

Hello, you mentioned that I have 1 PM restriction. So how can I know the exactly restriction?
Only by test myself?

Quote from widgit : Not one that the mods will tell us, no. That's to deter would-be spammers that would sign up, post the required number of posts to gain their PM privileges and then spam the living heck out of the users. (and yes, PM spamming does happen!) But the restrictions don't usually last too long. Days or so, maybe a week or two, etc., depending on your posting and participation in the forums. (And yes, asking questions like this one does count as participating ). So just post or participate as you normally would and the restrictions will lift fairly soon. Even though you just joined today, you've already got a couple of posts under your belt, so it probably won't be very much longer for you. And welcome to SD! (oh, and once you do gain those PM privileges, remember that at first you will most likely have a 1 PM limit, including both sent and received. See my post above here regarding this.)

Quote from Treammoke : Hey. I thought I saw this question before but I could find it. So if anyone could point me in the right direction. How do you post pictures so they are the full size vs the small thumbnails that you have to click on to enlarge? Thanks in advance

When you say 'full sized' do you mean truly full size, where the big huge full page size picture shows? Or do you mean showing the picture inside the post instead of just as an attachment?

If you mean truly full page size, that would actually depend on how each user has their options for how pictures show up in posts set in their account options. The default is to show thumbnails, so to see it full size by default instead, without having to click on it, each user would have to change that in their account settings. (It's set at that default mainly, I believe, for both bandwidth purposes and so that dial up users don't get overloaded.)

But if you meant how do you get the picture that you've attached to show up within the post, itself, instead of as just the attachment at the bottom of the post, see this post for instructions: How to include images INSIDE your posts instead of at the bottom of them.

And if you meant showing a picture from a website within your post, and not uploading/attaching a picture to your post, that would be done by clicking on the insert image icon while in the reply text box (or the new thread text box if you're creating a new thread) and pasting the url of the image in the pop up that appears. You can also just use the the [img][/img] tags, such as [img]InsertURLofPictureHere[/img], which works the same as clicking on the insert image icon.

Again, though, for both of the above ways of showing pictures within posts, the picture will size to the user's chosen or default settings.

Couple of things to remember if you're using the insert image/img tags to link to an image on a website: First is that not all forums allow image tags within posts. Most of the Deal forums, such as Hot Deals, do not. But some of the non-deal forums such as the Lounge or Site Issues do. Second, some sites do not allow hot linking (which is what you're doing when you directly link to the url from a site's picture), so if you're linking to a picture on another site, be aware that the image may disappear if the site you're linking to removes it from their website.

Quote from rapstone : Hello, you mentioned that I have 1 PM restriction. So how can I know the exactly restriction? Only by test myself?

Go to your PM inbox, scroll down to the bottom of the page and it *should* say something like "Inbox contains xx messages. You have xx messages stored, of a total xx allowed" or similar. The 'of a total xx allowed' part tells you your current PM limit.