How do you post pictures in the forum?

TheShortSimmer · November 2014

Thank you for posting this, and the kind person who pointed me here. Helps so much, since I was trying to show off my first ever Sim and I kept receiving a message saying it was not possible for me to do.

islappkids · January 2015

THIS IS SO DUMB. I'VE BEEN HERE SINCE 2011 AND NOW I HAVE TO START ALL THE WAY OVER

bsimth · January 2015

I was wondering what had happened. When the site first posted, I was able to show-off my sims. Now BB Code has been disabled.

temerald7667 · January 2015

Hi @ajoya I have no idea. I wonder if they're doing some kind of maintenance?

lisasc360 · January 2015

ajoya wrote: »

I was wondering what had happened. When the site first posted, I was able to show-off my sims. Now BB Code has been disabled.

Hello. It's because of the point system that is in place. You need so many points and posts to be able to start posting pictures. We had an increase in troll activity with illegal pictures being used for avatars, so EA had to do something to keep that from happening again.

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/770609/member-or-new-member-everything-you-need-to-know-updated-30-12-14/p1

"You need 50 Points, 30 Posts and have an account older than 24 hours to become a Member."

Hope this helps...

edit: I see that you have what is required to be able to post and all, so that is weird that you still can't post pictures. Maybe someone else can explain why that is better than I can.

TheSimDion · January 2015

How come I can't put pictures, links, or gifs in my signature? I do what you say to do, but it won't work.
Ex.

This won't work in my signature and images or links don't either.

Gryffix · January 2015

it doesn't work for me, and I've been a member since October so it's not that my account isn't old enough...

lisasc360 · January 2015

Gryffix wrote: »

it doesn't work for me, and I've been a member since October so it's not that my account isn't old enough...

You need 7 more posts to make it 30 and then it should work...

bleedingbanshe · February 2015

Plum, thanks a lot, EA. This is so convoluted!

Fan_Gurll · March 2015

Ugh, I need to post a picture for help. But I cant. :(

luthienrising · March 2015

Fan_Gurll wrote: »

Ugh, I need to post a picture for help. But I cant.

If you can post it to a photo site and post a link here but put spaces in the link, that will work for now.

rosemow · March 2015

Fan_Gurll wrote: »

Ugh, I need to post a picture for help. But I cant.

I am sorry to hear that you are having game problems. Luthienrising's suggestion about posting the link for your photo for help is good.
I also wanted to say Welcome to the forums.

You may like to visit this thread and introduce yourself.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself

wiesjy86 · March 2015

Thanks for the how to :)

Pulversoppa · March 2015

Ah man... wish I'd seen this a week ago. Just tried to do my "what I learned on an event post" and apparently I can't add all the 10 pretty pictures I was allowed to bring home, nor link to stuff.

Daya · March 2015

Nvm. fixed it.

Snowie · April 2015

Ok I like to think that I'm not an plum, but I can't figure out how to make the forums post my pictures. I know new members can't post pictures, but I'm not a new member anymore so that should be fine. The attach image/file button in the comments section confuses me, I don't know what exactly I'm supposed to put there because when I did click and drag a picture there, my picture opened up in a window by itself. I thought "ok, it wants a URL and now I have one" so I copied and pasted the URL provided when the picture opened into the attach image/file box and it appeared to use the BB Code to attach an image, but when I clicked preview it showed just the code, no picture. So how exactly do I get this to work?

Rud3Bwoyz · April 2015

use tiny pic then use the code that says Direct Link for Layouts

will work 100 percent

just tested to make sure it works to for you and it does itll give you the url after the picture is uploaded.

Cyron43 · April 2015

You can only post pictures from the internet. Here is how:
1. find a picture hoster (please google for "picture upload").
2. Upload your picture there.
3. you should get a link (URL) in return.
4. Copy that link to the clipboard (mark it with the mouse and press ctrl+c or click the "copy to clipboard" button if there is such)
5. Go to your post and click that "Attach image/file" button
6. Paste the URL by pressing ctrl+v

IMPORTANT: You must comply to the owners copyright if you paste a picture of someone else.

Amitaliri619 · April 2015

Well this is disappointing but I guess we just have to accept the system. Anyway thanks to everyone for this informative thread. Anyone know to to increase my points so that I can share pictures of my builds in the future? Thanks!