ajf009 said:
so post a link to your work. problem solved right?
In regards to posting images, you're already doing that, but surrounding it with tags, which the forum software takes as "welp, better follow that link and show everyone what is there!". What GAF has rights to is whatever is written and saved onto their servers. By posting images, you've given GAF a non-exclusive license to THE URL of that image, but not what that URL links to. The image is still wherever you put it, and therefore the property of whoever's server it is on. So say your post is
[quote=someone]
haha cats
[img]http://funnycrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/funny-cats-a10.jpg
[/quote]
NeoGAF has the rights to this:
someone said:
haha cats
[ img]http://funnycrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/funny-cats-a10.jpg[/img]
No image there! They have a right to the URL, but not the URL's contents. Therefore, your art is safe. Literary works, on the other hand, ARE saved on the servers, since it's text, so that you may want to simply link to if you're concerned.
And if it hasn't been drilled into your head already, without this addition, you can sue GAF for something so stupid as "distributing" your artwork to some poster you don't like, since that's how the internet and forum software works, it's distributing your post (art) to someone else, in this case, someone looking at the site.
I'd probably save my shit flipping for when you investigate your image sharing site of choice's TOS. Because they own your actual images.