Read above posts - but in essence it's posting an image on a forum when it's still being hosted by somebody else. Bandwidth is being stolen. And as said it's not good form, so they replace the image with something dire. I seem to remember one instance of tub **** being the replaced image :/
Oh I must admit i'm very guilty of that so best do to imageshack then?
I always have seen no hotlinking but never thought to ask what it was. usually I just give the URL anyway but thanks for the heads up. Another internet mystery solved
