[TAP ONLINE]

I saw the Post: Hanoi Jane on Paul Zahn Now!
It had a fake picture. I smelled a rat. I book marked and when I went back it was gone. Fine with me it should have been deleted if it was false. However, what concerns me is the fact that it (Post number 44) was not purged or replaced with "deleted by moderator". Instead it was replaced with another picture (a fine photo of Ted) and numbered 44, as if the first picture was never there. I wrote a reply that the thing smelled like a scene from 1984.
Is it a policy of FR to replace posts already posted with more acceptable ones or was this an aberration? It looked like a cover up and that makes us look worse than the post itself. Delete it, ban it but do not pretend it never existed.

Not aimed at you,Madstrider

[Admin Moderator]

At some point last night, Registered changed the picture on HIS server that was being referenced by threads on FR. That was the one you saw of Kennedy at Hooters. Don't know if it's still up or not

[Jim Robinson]

Hint: the moderators didn't do it. The "photo" was never on FR's servers. Someone posted a link to the image on whatever server was hosting it. We have no control whatsoever over images on other servers.

The moderators do not have access to swap images on FR's servers anyway.

[Lead Moderator]

I don't think you are understanding the way the posting of images works here on FR.

When a user posts an image, they aren't actually posting an image, but rather they are specifying, within an IMG HTML tag, where the image resides. We don't host the picture.

As such, if you see a photo that someone posted, and then later there is a different picture there, that means whoever controls that part of the server the picture was hosted on changed the picture. We have no control over that.

In this case, I think what happened is that someone was hosting a copy of the picture and then when it came out that it was a fake being taken as a real photo, they replaced the file with a different picture so as to stop the spread of the picture.

Regards, LM