Links to other sites should ultimately be viewable immediately although members' personal links may requiresome registration or other appropriate security measures. Off-topic site links should be denoted to allow an option allow the reader to skip over them.

Facebook is noit the best place to send members due to it's various security risks and other member's account which may not be humky-dory to all from time to time. A photohosting account, personal website or posting here is preferable to joining websites pell mell, willy nilly. A video site like You Tube that doesn't require membership to view is fine but remember that content should be acceptable to administrators and members (do recall 'rickrolling' and why a few members got banned at least temporarily).

Another reason is evident in some threads where the photo was deleted by the photohost and there is a sea of X's and error messages and then never edited by the poster(s). I wish the admins would contact them or clean those up as they are a disappointing eyesore,