Huh.
Did you see Ed Zotti’s response?
Bolding mine.
It seems to me that this demonstrates a certain amount of ignorance regarding exactly what is involved with the embedding of images.
The images placed in the post by pulykamell are hotlinked from a completely different site. When this happens, there are zero bandwidth issues for the SDMB, whether forum traffic is light or heavy, because the images are loaded from the host website straight into our browsers.
I don’t really care that we can’t link images on the main SDMB forums, but if the reason they’re giving for not enabling that feature is “bandwidth issues,” it’s a completely misguided rationale.