In the instances where I've had photos to share, Bill and his moderators have always been right on top of getting them uploaded and posted to the forum.
While I can understand some people wanting to get a photo into a thread for reply before it may take on a new direction, use of hosting sites like photobucket, tinyurl, etc. are typically very reliable vs. someone using their own "paid for" hosting and bandwidth.
I have a photobucket I use just for ECN should an occasion occur. (You can sign up for as many
free photobucket accounts as you like!) which keeps the bandwidth on the account from going over their ceiling for freebie accounts. This also prevents me from overwriting or deleting something I might have linked to in a thread.
This in itself all but solves the broken link /missing photo issue mentioned above.
"Hot-linking" is a common cause for missing/broken images also.
Another feature on photobucket is a photo size reducer, (photobucket will automatically reduce .jpg's and .gifs to 250kb if they are larger than that)
Bill has the ultimate say in how things happen around here, and I feel he's been and is being plenty fair.. same for the mods here. What I might suggest is if someone feels it pertinent to have a photo appear "right now", photobucket it, but also drop an email with the file or even a link to Bill or a mod so they can put it on the ECN server at their convenience. Let me know what you think.
~Randy
[This message has been edited by Lostazhell (edited 06-20-2006).]