>>My biggest complaint is the hot linking. That is bandwidth theft to begin with.
All I am trying to say is... stop knocking the filters. They are accurately doing their job. If you have a problem with them blocking FR then clean house internally over the hot linking issue.<<
I don’t share your concern about hot linking because if someone makes a web page freely available to the public I don’t think they have the right to require people to look at all of it.
But I generally don’t hotlink for another reason - its too easy for the picture to disappear or change. I would also rather not help some web sites capture the IP addresses of fellow Freeper. If I list a link to Consumption Junction, Freepers can decide whether to visit the site but with a hot link I take that choice away -their browser visits consumption junction before they even read my post.
So instead I repost the photo on photobucket.com. Occasionally that site is blocked but since they don’t allow porn its as safe as any photo hosting choice. Its free forever, easy to do, they generate the HTML for you and you never reload the page and find they replaced your picture with ttub girl. That is no fun at all.
Please note that hot linking is bandwidth theft. It actually hurts the victim. Plus it’s lazy and stupid.
Now grabbing a photo and re-hosting it may still be “theft” but I don’t see where it actually hurts anyone so I have no problem with it.