Just my two euros worth.
The avatars are tiny, most are good fun as well. Embedded images ? it is a trade off between information provided (it is true, an image is worth a thousand words) and image size / annoyance. I know Ofnuts says English text can be translated on line these days but sometimes an image provides the necessary information easily.
Images hosted on file sharing sites such as imgur can be displayed or not, up to the user to edit the link inserted. Same trade off as embedded images for value / size / annoyance. The annoyance value can be greater when the image is repeated ad-nauseam with quoted replies.
The real problem with externally hosted images and videos (and I make some of those) is persistence. It has happened before where the hosting site closes or becomes subscription only. Those forum posts then become mostly junk.
Originally, I come from comp.graphics.apps.gimp Usenet where you soon learned what was acceptable or not. People were not as gentle in those days. For the sake of my sanity, please not a quote-in-a-quote-in-a-quote followed by "that's nice" or a "thanks" followed by a monster graphical sig.
Please put this down to the grumpy-old-man effect, where a signature used to be two dashes and a space followed by text
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rich
The avatars are tiny, most are good fun as well. Embedded images ? it is a trade off between information provided (it is true, an image is worth a thousand words) and image size / annoyance. I know Ofnuts says English text can be translated on line these days but sometimes an image provides the necessary information easily.
Images hosted on file sharing sites such as imgur can be displayed or not, up to the user to edit the link inserted. Same trade off as embedded images for value / size / annoyance. The annoyance value can be greater when the image is repeated ad-nauseam with quoted replies.
The real problem with externally hosted images and videos (and I make some of those) is persistence. It has happened before where the hosting site closes or becomes subscription only. Those forum posts then become mostly junk.
Originally, I come from comp.graphics.apps.gimp Usenet where you soon learned what was acceptable or not. People were not as gentle in those days. For the sake of my sanity, please not a quote-in-a-quote-in-a-quote followed by "that's nice" or a "thanks" followed by a monster graphical sig.
Please put this down to the grumpy-old-man effect, where a signature used to be two dashes and a space followed by text
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rich