Quote Originally Posted by Luigi View Post
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Less chance of people like Daffodil deleting all their photo albums in a drunken hissy-fit if they are hotlinked from another site.

Getting posters to upload on other sites is an ingenious safety catch that helps minimize the risk of the drunken, angry, oafs causing problems.
I don't agree entirely, though I see merit in your suggestion.

I have a PhotoBucket account and used to hotlink directly from that but ... once I changed the name of an album or moved some images from one album to another and the hotlink was lost.