Professional photographers and artists: We now offer 'Verified' flair and guidelines for linking to your own site

In the past we've discouraged links to unfamiliar image hosts because we tend to crash their servers or bankrupt them with bandwidth fees whenever they hit the front page and get hit with front-page traffic. In a few egregious cases, we've also encountered a bit of excessive self-promotion.This had led to shutting-out many professional photographers and artists who would like to submit their work to /r/pics while hosting the images on their own sites, rather than just imgur, 500px, flickr or deviantart.Most of the hosting issues seem to have been worked out over the last few years: many good hosts now have affordable plans that can take a 5K-karma post without handing you a bill for half your life savings. So for the past few months, we've been unofficially relaxing those restrictions a little to see how it goes, and we'd now like to open this up officially.These are our guidelines for professional photographers and artists who would like to host submissions from their own sites. We're also offering "Verified Photographer" and "Verified Artist" flair to users who can prove to us (privately via modmail) that it's their site. Verified status means that other redditors on /r/pics can see that your posts are OC (Original Content) unless you specify otherwise in the post title. "Verified" flair will be a condition for linking to your own site, from now-on.All of reddit's self-promotion rules still apply, of course, which means this isn't a license to spam /r/pics or pass off other people's content as your own.Our subscribers come here to see all kinds of pics--the unusual, the hilarious, and the inspiring--but we know they're hungry for quality above all, and we'd love to see you bring it.

Micky Videos 2015

Professional photographers and artists: We now offer 'Verified' flair and guidelines for linking to your own site

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