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Can anyone steal photos?
Ha! If you think you should steal, perhaps you ought to leave. Using someone else's photo for anything is not okay. Photography is an art, and it takes a lot of work. If you want to use a photo for something, pay a photographer. Don't loot photos here! We actually built in a way to thwart most folks who will try to steal images so photographers ought to feel safe.
What are these recent blocks of photos?
These blocks of photos show the most recent photos in the current context of where you are on the site. If you are on a category page you will be seeing the most recent photos in that category, if you were on the challenge page you would be seeing the most recent photos submitted to that challenge, and so on.
What are these popular blocks of photos?
These blocks of photos are the most popular photos in the given context. In the same way as the Recent blocks, these are dependent upon where you are currently on the site. Find out what makes a photo popular.
Why can't I see some photos? Some have a red x.
Our images are stored on mirrored servers all over the United States. It is feasible (although rare), that some images are on servers which your internet service provider does not have access to. We have no control over this. The next step would be to look into clearing your DNS cache locally, or perhaps contacting your ISP to see if they are having issues with certain subnets of servers on the world wide web. As far as we're concerned, the images are behaving normally. They can be seen in expected places and in expected ways to all users, with the exception of you, which is quite unfortunate. We wish we could do more to help, but we can't. Sorry!
