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SN,
First of all, I too have low bandwidth Internet access, so I definitely feel your pain on "time to wait and wait and wait and wait..etc for a bunch of heavy pics to download...".

And we do try to keep things rated kind of PG here. But as you correctly point out, that's not suited to 8 year old children.

We already run one of the most restrictive profanity filters I know of. But that's not what you're addressing here.

If we had programming authority we could have check-boxes for that stuff. Then it could automatically be displayed in the title / subject line.
That's beyond our control.
You (or we) could request it from Yuku. But as broadband comprises an ever larger % of Internet access, I'm not sure they'd devote their resources to attend to a problem that only affects narrow-band accessors.

We used to have a thread about Netiquette. Here's what it said:

Netiquette is roughly defined by some as Internet etiquette.
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� net·i·quette /ˈnɛtɪkɪt, ‑ˌkɛt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[net-i-kit, ‑ket] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
-noun
the rules of etiquette that apply when communicating over computer networks, esp. the Internet.
[Origin: 1980-85; b. network + etiquette]

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/netiquette


Since the Internet is fairly new, and rapidly evolving, the rules of netiquette are new and evolving too.

The following are a few of the highlights:

Hot Links:
Yuku makes it possible to post a command that will hot link a picture (an image) to a post such as any @Heavy.
An obvious example is a picture which illustrates a story in an Internet news article.

That source article, and illustration/s accompanying it are probably not products of charity. It's more likely the news organization pays the reporter, and the editor, and the Internet Service Provider (ISP), so that the news organization can Internet-publish the article & image/s, accompanied by advertising, which pays the reporter, the editor, the ISP, and the shareholders.

Embedding an image via "Hot Link" in a The Round Table post means that each time anyone opens that page of the thread / topic in which the image is posted, through Internet linkage, that news organization's ISP's server is polled, and summons that image.

The problem is, this separates the advertisers from the revenue drawing source material. And it also increases the source material ISP server burden.
If we posted hot-linked images, we would be using the news organization's ISP as the host of our picture in our post.

It is in effect, "theft of service" of that source's Internet Service Provider.

So what's the solution?

Easy.

For non-copyrighted images, store the image on your own Internet storage / server. That way you are paying for the ISP server burden, every time your post with that image is displayed.

- - - - - -

There's more to netiquette than that.
Some regard text in all caps as "shouting". Some consider it rude, or offensive.
Options are to highlight key words or phrases in italics, in bold text, or use underlining.

Different cyber-communities serve differing constituencies, and therefore have differing standards. "When in Rome ...".

We welcome feedback on this, and other topics, @Heavy.

Thank you for visiting The Round Table. Enjoy our current events forum (@Heavy). Visit often. Post a lot.

But SN, we tried to streamline things here. So we made that forum invisible.

If you like, you could help us revise the above quoted post.
Then we could re-open our The Small Print Forum.

But ultimately I believe compliance would be voluntary. And because people come here to relax, 100% compliance with meticulous observance of obscure rules might not be an achievable goal.

But let's see what Grace06 has to say about this. She's a bright gal. Perhaps she can think of something more constructive than I can.

SN,
I haven't intended to be non-responsive here. To answer your question directly:

"can we encourage people who start threads to make it known in the title - not safe for work (NSFW) or not safe for kids (PG13) or if someone has a bunch of pics they posted.. " SN

Yes. We can.
But the question is not what, but how.

Perhaps you've noticed the conspicuously spare, sparse conservative look of The Round Table.
It's not an inadvertent oversight. It's actually deliberate design. I selected it for that reason. We deliberately don't post a graphical logo, and we don't display a huge stack of rules on our front page.

For example:

"I would edit all that blah blah blah to
We at the round table believe in netiqueette which is simply being polite and respectful in your posts towards other members."

"ok sear..i would just edit ALL THAT...blah blah blah to...
1. No hot-linking. Use your own website to post images. Hot-linking is bandwidth theft."

"and i would edit all that to say

2. No typing in ALL CAPITALS ALL THE TIME BECAUSE PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE SHOUTING.
LOL image" SN

We edited all that "blah blah blah" to:

Please practice The Golden Rule at The Round Table and in your daily life. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Though it doesn't function as such in this post, you'll find the one on our main page is a clickable link.

And when you click that link you should find our condensed combination greeting and rules briefing (in which we posted credit to your contribution).

The question is, can we preserve this elegantly simple style, and yet also act on your request.

I don't have unilateral authority on it. We'd need Grace06's approval. But one of our options would be:

At our greeting at:

http://theroundtable31996.yuku.com/topic/5987

we could add a link to the netiquette comments you and A4 have suggested. I'd welcome your rough draft of that.

Would it be any different than:

We at the round table believe in netiqueette which is simply being polite and respectful in your posts towards other members.
1. No hot-linking. Use your own website to post images. Hot-linking is bandwidth theft.
2. No typing in ALL CAPITALS ALL THE TIME BECAUSE PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE SHOUTING.
ask everyone to post a **adult content** signifier on any topic/utube/joke/picture line prior to submitting the new topic!!! *

* to be edited

But apart from an approach like that, it's not clear to me how we could act on this without falling into the clutter trap. (much writing that isn't read by those that need it)

Would you be willing to compose it?