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Originally Posted by Fraser
You shouldn't ever post an image directly from another site. You should post a link to a page that contains the image. If people want to see it, they can click to see the page that contains the image and see it in context. It's partly a courtesy thing, and partly a copyright issue.
If you're storing an image locally, the original source loses the ability to modify the image and have it be updated directly. If you paste a link to their image only, you're not letting people see the page that the image was stored in (it's rude). And if you paste the link directly into a forum page, you're making every person who loads the page also load the image. It's a severe bandwidth hog, and considered very rude.
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Basically, don't load an image to BAUT ever, even if it is from NASA.
1. Each viewer is using their bandwidth to load the thread. Downloading each page with images is cumbersome and considered rude.
2. Using [IMG] tags is a copyright violation, unless given permission. Even then so, see 1.
3. The only images one should even post are images owned by the poster. Even then so, see 1.
Wow, I can think of a few posters that often use [IMG] tagged funny photos to a thread, like Maksutov.
I don’t think I like these rules, but I can live with them. I assume this doesn’t apply to smilies, or am I wrong there, too?
