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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
Thunderbolt and Lightning
Very very frightening |
[EDITING MINE]
The URL you copied was to the Google search page that your image was found on, not the image URL which has to end in an image file suffix (e.g. - .bmp, .gif, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg, .png) in order to use the image tags ([IMG][/IMG]).
Linking to an image; however, is NOT recommended for IOTD.
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
… Try to post pictures that haven't appeared on a hundred other sites.
If there's a back story to the picture, post it or link to it, but don't link the picture. That way, when someone is going through back IOtDs, they don't see a red X. ...
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[BOLD MINE]
The preferred method for IOTD opening posts is to download the picture and then upload it in IOTD. That's what I did with your picture.
Please follow the link to xoB's full post and observe the other considerations for IOTD opening posts.