Few questions about what users can and can't do on here

[M.E.R.255]

I can be quite... excessive with information and showing examples. *sweat* But seeing how I do not want to upset anyone, I want to ask a few questions and make sure to not make many mistakes in the future. >_< So...

1. Can you show GIFs you didn't make? (but don't claim you own)
Is it okay if you post GIF animations of Pokémon that you want to mention, while they're not directly uploaded on this website (I wouldn't know how to do that on here), even when you didn't make some of them from scratch but are instead from a Nintendo game? Like...
"I find Youngster Joey and his Rattata

silly"
Would that be fine to do so for the purpose of showing visually what you're talking about? If I were to claim it belongs to me, then it would be plagiarism... but if I don't, nor intend to do so, is that allowed?
(The example image above was posted on my website. I'm paying for a hosting service, yet barelyuse it, so I might as well go ahead and upload some GIFs on it and improve my coding skills. ^^)


2. Can you suggest ideas / smilies here?
I have made several smilies from scratch which I don't want to go to waste, so I'd love to share them on here. ^^ But I don't know where to do that. =( Do I have to be part of the website development staff to do so? Or can I post a topic here to suggest smilies or ideas for the site? =O


3. Can you post thoughts on the website's programming in here?
Again, I'm not sure if you have to be part of the website development staff, or if you can simply point out a few things that you think could be improved? Like... thoughts on existing BB Codes, ideas for new ones, and few errors you noticed?

For example...

Spoiler:

This was written 04/17/2017, so if this got corrected or changed, then you won't be seeing the same errors or content that I currently am pointing out.
I looked at the 404 error on this page: https://www.pokecommunity.com/error123
It will show the text 404 found not page page page page in a CSS ballbounce animation accompanied with the lovely Pokémon Season 1: Indigo League - Opening Theme Song in a retro style, on the background in the spoiler tag which displays the Pokémon from Gen. 1 through Gen. 5 in what appears to be the original Japanese Pokémon Red & Pokémon Green style. (kudos on the person who drew all of that and made the catchy retro tune ^^)

Spoiler:

(image no longer exists)

However, if you look at https://www.pokecommunity.com/images/error123 you will notice a lack of the background image and music. That is because the links in the header's CSS start with the directory 404, rather than the domain.
Example:

url(404/pokesprite.jpg)

Which results in these errors, because it's assuming the directory requested contains the folder 404

error123:1 GET https://www.pokecommunity.com/images/404/pokesprite.jpg 404 ()
error123:1 GET https://www.pokecommunity.com/images/404/pkmn.ogg 404 ()
error123:1 GET https://www.pokecommunity.com/images/404/arcade/arcade.woff2 
error123:1 GET https://www.pokecommunity.com/images/404/pkmn.mp3 404 ()
error123:1 GET https://www.pokecommunity.com/images/404/arcade/arcade.woff 
error123:1 GET https://www.pokecommunity.com/images/404/arcade/arcade.ttf

That should be able to be fixed by adding the domain in front of the 6 instances where 404 comes first.
Example:

url(https://www.pokecommunity.com/404/pokesprite.jpg)

It does save bytes to not write the domain in front of everything, but sometimes it's required to make sure the page will load everything correctly at all times. ^^

Seeing how long that took me to type up, I'll leave it at that and see what responses I may receive on this. ^^ Thank you for reading! =D

 

[Astinus]

You can definitely do all of those things here on the forums!

1. People use the sprites from the Pokemon games all the time in their posts. We even have a few from the games uploaded on the forums already to be used. But members do use the sprites in their posts hosted on image sharing sites to talk about Pokemon. Take a look at some posts in the Challenges forum for an example of this.

2 & 3. Unless things have changed (and I really doubt they have) the staff love hearing suggestions from members. You can post your ideas and suggestions right here in this section to see what staff (and other members) think of them.

 

[M.E.R.255]

Phew! I was quite nervous about making this topic that I tried to include as much info as I could. *sweat* Thank you sooooo much for your reply, good sir! =D I'll go ahead and make a couple of topics in here then, offering some ideas and hopefully ways to help out the site! ^^

Sorry for the lengthy topic... I can't promise the other ones won't be lengthy as well. *sweat*