Forum:SH:The recent upload question

I wanted to take just a minute to clear up the recent "Why can't I upload images?" question that's been asked a few times lately. To be more specific, the answers to that question. I've seen a few different answers, such as a certain amount of edits and a longer length of time and what not. Most of the answers, if not all, have been incorrect, so I wanted to clear this up:


 * New and unregistered users cannot upload images.
 * You are an auto-confirmed user after 4 days, and you can then upload images.

So when someone asks you why they can't upload images, it's based on when they registered their account&mdash;not first edited here, but registered their account. If someone has been a Wikia user for a year but has never edited here, they can upload an image immediately when they come here because they've been auto-confirmed on Wikia for a year.

If someone registers an account here today at 3pm Eastern Standard Time, then they can begin uploading images at 3pm Eastern Standard Time on April 1st, which is 4 days from now.

I hope that helps clear things up. This will be worth putting into an updated image policy, so I'll put that into my draft. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 18:53, March 28, 2011 (UTC)