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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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I guess you don't like images, eh?
What I typically post is either a small image itself, i.e. 5K or less or a tiny thumbnail linking to an image service site. The thumbnail gives the reader the option of clicking on it to see the larger image, or not.The images are either mine or in the public domain.
But if images are verboten (including, it would appear, custom avatars (so long, T. Rex)), then I'll say goodbye to such things and probably significantly decrease my participation in this board.