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Robin, on another forum I frequent (Ausphotography) my biggest gripe is missing hotlinked images. A great deal of the time links are broken, expired or temporarily unavailable or the original posters accounts on the hotlinked site are deleted and the files no longer exist, so much so that if I find a user who regularly links images which are "expired", I avoid that users posts.
Regarding "the look of the site" it also looks like crap when you view a thread with pages of missing images.
The abovementioned forum actively encourages hotlinking for the simple reason that it reduces their bandwidth use, i.e. they're putting the cost ofserving downloaded images on to someone else.
Apart from the reasons Mike has outlined linked images are most often a PITA for end users.
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