[onehost]

Originally Posted by midnz

Go to your AdminCP/Forums & Moderators/Forum Manager/ select the forum you want to edit and look to adjust:
Show Private Forum (select the '?' icon to the right for an explanation):
Select 'No' here will hide this forum from users who are not allowed to access it. Users who do have permission to access them will have to log in before they can see these forums too.

Either of the yes options will allow users to see this forum if they don't have access to it. The ability to see the forum's post count is controlled by the two yes options. If the forum is passworded, it is treated as a private forum until the user enters the valid password.

Setting this option to 'Use Default' will use the setting in Forum Display Listings Options for this forum.

both of my options in forum manager/forum display are set to no, but
I can see the images as plain as day when I am not logged in...

I think he has a point, maybe we need a mod that will only allow members to upload
and show images only on our vb/host/server rather hotlinking an image from another.

Yes there are upload scripts out there, but that will not prevent others from not using
the internal img to hotlink an image, and if you have lots of posts per day, then
why not just automate that, and be at rest that your images are not from other servers.

I am still not sure about his claim of stat theft from images?
how would you know this by looking at a image?