Obviously there have been some very good points made....and quite honestly I've never put too much thought into it. I prefer to upload a 200X200 size thumb of the full size image so that people can see what they're getting before they bother to open the image. You get a good idea of what the image is, and if it isn't worth your time you can move on. I do (like cynlee) get annoyed when I click on a detailed cropped thumb and what appears to be something interesting only to find that it was a waste of my time, I rather feel like I've been tricked into looking....and I don't really like that. Obviously some kind of thumb is better than none, but there are some gems hidden in those non-thumbed images, and so I do open them more often than not.... sometimes I'm disappointed and sometimes I'm not. What ever floats your boat.... it really isn't that big of a deal.

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