Uploading image returns ">3 points required to upload files"?

<Edit by @Lupp >
Both the question and the accepted solution date back to the time of askbot software.
They are obsolete. In my opinion, the topic should be removed.

  1. I want to upload a screenshot and
    get this remark.
  2. At first I thought,
    maybe it is because the automatic
    name of the picture generated when
    taking a screenshot has too many
    dots in it in the date e.g.
    2016.03.16 ?
  3. So I eliminated the date. There’s no more dots apart
    from the .jpg Yet I still get this
    error pop up. Help? Thy

This is due to foolish decisions taken on inception of this site, never countermanded. The individuals that could change it never read the site (there have been a 1,000 posts saying the same as you, yet no change).

Send an email to hostmaster @ documentfoundation.org.

Include @alexanderwerner in your post.

Pray.