Profile pictures

@rtijlo That's simply not true. When you write a text somewhere in a profile ANYWHERE on the internet, it will appear as text, regardless of whether it's a link to an image, a link to a website, plain text, markup, or anything else.

Posting a link to a host is typically used in forums that don't support hosting it themselves -- which by the way, if you are old enough, you should understand the difference between a forum and a personal profile page.

Show me ONE other website where this is true, that is you go and make a profile, write down your username, etc, and where it asks your info in the "about me" section, when you paste the link of an image, it automatically converts that link to an HTML image tag that shows the image inside the container. I challenge you. Show me just one website that uses this "standard".

OMFG, no. I did not just read that.

>> "When you write a text somewhere in a profile ANYWHERE on the internet, it will appear as text, regardless of whether it's a link to an image, a link to a website, plain text, markup, or anything else."

I think I just soiled myself laughing. Sorry people, I have to go change my underoos.

Here we have a website, where if you stick an image, which is just text, which can be interpreted as a URL, in your profile, and it will be interpreted as such ... and yet another no-name "@obama-care" user saying: "My way or the highway, it can work no other way." (Because we don't have Causeways, or Freeways. Because text interpreters don't tell you when you've input a bad URL that doesn't register as a URL, and so a URL can't thus be parsed from plain-text.)

Sorry, gotta go ... got an issue to deal with (soiled myself laughing).

@rtijlo #20 +1 ... for baiting this poor chump (the OP) into making him or herself a joke (at his or her own expense).

Here I was going to crack mom jokes ... something dumb like "Yo mama so poor she named you after Obama Care."

... but, well, you win this round for baiting the poor chump into making a fool out of him or herself. And making me chortle beer through my nose. And making me shart in my pants.

@MrCharles what a troll. You aren't even a clever troll. More like a wise pants.

@obama-care -- I think you meant to say something like "soiled pants" or "crap-in-your-pants" -- because that's what you said did to me -- it made me shart in my underoos, such that I had to change them.

I may not be clever, and I may just be a troll (it's intentional). But at least I shart on-command, when people make bad jokes that make everyone else laugh. (Cue punchline.)

Here's another copy/pasted link for you to consider ...

@MrCharles what are you 11 years old?

Yes, I'm 11 years old (if you divide that by 3.5).

Hey, @obama-care -- what are you? 2-years old?

I've been around the block a few times. I know how to write a parser. I understand how things are done, and that they're not always done the way you want or expect. I'm just having fun at your expense, because in relation to me being 11-years-old, you've got to be no more than 2-years-old. (Grow-up, gain a few years of perspective, and experience, and then I'll treat you more like you're my age, or the age I once was when you get to my 11-year-old status; having gained logarithmic experience upon your own.)

Look dude, I know and understand you've got limited experience in certain domains. There ain't nothing wrong with that because you learn and grow. You've just gotta pay attention to the finer details and points, because, when you run across people like me ... well ... what, exactly do you say to someone who has more experience and you insist upon a rather naive perspective? (What will you be saying to others, 10-years down the road after gaining more experience and perspective?) -- But I'm the child, right? (Because I'm not nice, right? Welcome to this world.)

If someone says to you: "Post a link in your profile." -- Then maybe that's just what you should do. (Or maybe do some historical research, read the code behind the website, and instead of fighting the obvious, do a code-commit and pull-request to implement the changes you can help with if you're hell-bent on doing something a certain way. I wouldn't object to this. I'd say: "Awesome, thanks!" Instead of giving you a bad time.)

Food for thought & perspective.

Next time someone tells you that you should do something their way because it's better (or, the right way) ... good luck with that in life, because sometimes it might be, but most times it means you have to adapt to another person's way of thinking. (And we all know what you think about that at this point ... screw that, right? My way or the highway. Well, meh, that depends on which way you're crossing against a two way street when you look the opposite direction.)

Huh? What? (Roadkill.)

Let's just go back to where this started ... You want a profile picture (an official field to upload or implement such). You were told how people do it. You object (fight, argumentative, must be done the way everyone else does it, because: Nobody else can be right about things except you and your own life-experience and perspective). And you do so several times, saying: "That's now how it's done" (across the internet).

And things have just progressed UGLY from there. (I'm part of that ugliness.)

You can accept the simple path forward, or you could burden yourself with helping do things the way you want to see them done. You can't insist upon others implementing your specific wants/needs/desires and being argumentative about it.

There is no other path. This is not your way or the highway. This way is someone else's highway. (And we're just along for the ride helping each other out. If you reject what people say, well, deal with whatever comes your way; you jumped in the car to take a drive, you've gotta accept the passengers, and the driver. Especially the driver.)

People tried to help you. You object/reject that help and become argumentative, and here we are ... I will continue having fun with this at your expense ... (you still haven't leveraged the solution provided to you, thus, you're being argumentative simply for the sake-of, instead of doing anything more helpful than fielding further arguments against having pointed this out several different ways...)

OneBigAs*MistakeAmerica
and MsCharles both trolls