# My apologies to the members

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apologies-to-the-members/777011>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 13, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apologies-to-the-members/777011 "2017-01-13T04:06:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apologies-to-the-members/777011/1 "2017-01-13T04:06:41Z")

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On my DVD media posts it seems that I had links to the adult sites in my posts. My image hosting site claimed to be a family oriented site and do not contain nor allow adult related materials.

I have no idea where these links came from and I apologize for this.

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apologies-to-the-members/777011/2 "2017-01-13T11:33:07Z")

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I saw those links at the time–it seems to be a skeevy site that automatically appends an advertising link to the end of any photo link. By leaving no space between the two links, they hope that the poster doesn’t notice. You could defeat that by copying the URL directly from the address bar, or editing out the extra link as you post. (Or pick a different image hosting site.)

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**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apologies-to-the-members/777011/3 "2017-01-13T12:38:16Z")

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Thanks, I’ll check into that.

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apologies-to-the-members/777011/4 "2017-01-14T01:28:33Z")

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Moving over to ATMB.

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apologies-to-the-members/777011/5 "2017-01-14T14:08:23Z")

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Well, could be worse. You could have chosen Photobucket. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apologies-to-the-members/777011/6 "2017-01-14T17:15:08Z")

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I’ve re-opened the relevant thread.

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apologies-to-the-members/777011/7 "2017-01-14T17:25:15Z")

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And in Straight Dope news, SigMan has been placed in charge of vetting the SD ad providers.  
😃

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apologies-to-the-members/777011/8 "2017-01-14T17:57:08Z")

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> [@SigMan](#):
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> Thanks, I’ll check into that.

I have a lot of luck with [imgur.com](http://imgur.com). While they will host non-family-friendly content, it won’t show up in side bars and stuff.

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apologies-to-the-members/777011/9 "2017-01-20T02:32:59Z")

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> [@ftg](#):
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> Well, could be worse. You could have chosen Photobucket. 🙂

No! not that! :eek:

They annoy me so much I think I’d rather have the appended porn links. Might even find something interesting that way:o