I'd really be interested to know in detail... what the problem is with quoted <timg> tagged images? No one has really explained what the objection to them is, and only speaking for myself, the removal of every single quoted image somehow makes reading this thread seem a lot less user-friendly than it used to be. Since I don't visit as frequently as I used to, when I return there are 3-4, or maybe even more new pages of posts, and many of them are comments about images, where the poster quoted a thumbnail version of the original picture they were referring to... except all the referred images have been snipped out. It makes the thread a pain in the @$$ to follow, and feels like a bunch of out of context comments. Yes, I know... I could just click on the link to the original post to see the picture in question, but that really interrupts the 'flow,' and I seldom bother. What happens to me, is that I begin to lose interest, because the forum starts to feel like there is some kind of 'enforcer' cracking a whip over all of us children who don't really know what's good for us. In a nutshell - it's a turnoff. If the place starts to feel like some nitkpicky rulebound club, I'd just as soon go play where I can let my hair down a bit...
So, what I need to counter the sense of 'big brother' ruling from on high, setting arbitrary rules just because he wants to, is some honest, reasonable explanation as to why quoted <timg> tags are a bad thing. Is it bandwidth? Is it file storage? Is it style? Is it just an obsession? What is it about quoted images, especially <timg> tagged images that is such a taboo? Sell me on the reasoning, and I'll buy it. Otherwise, it cramps my style. And speaking of bandwidth, isn't it more bandwidth consuming to have people reading this thread clicking on every original link just to be able to 'see' the pictures in question, than it would be just to have a thumbnail image show up on the replay post? And finally, if it really is bandwidth that's the problem, even when displayed images are mostly hosted on remote sites and linked to, then Macrumors.com needs to quit providing forums at all. Somehow I don't think bandwidth is the issue. So, Mods... enlighten me, please.
respectfully,
pdxflint