Quote Originally Posted by Daniel View Post
I think the point that ... others are trying to make is even where people have created an image/tutorial and have chosen to host it on their own webspace, and then link to or embed that content into their post, that their messages have then been edited by a moderator so as to copy the image to the Talkgraphics server.
I don't know for certain, but suspect that the forum software has been configured to do this automatically without moderator intervention. Furthermore, this may have been a decision by the moderators, not Xara, per se, as the company seems to have be have been rather hands off in the policy setting and general day-to-day running of the forum. Just my speculation.

At any rate, if this prevents talented contributors like James (JokeArtist) and Big Frank from participating, I'd prefer to see this "feature" turned off. Perhaps it could even be a user-by-user choice as to whether to allow the images they upload to be hosted at TG as many may not mind.