Pic quality on free sites

[Ms Naughty]

I started this thread because I had a site rejected from a linklist because the pics were too compressed and small. I have been happily offering 550 or 570 on the long side, at about 75 quality, thinking that was OK.

Admittedly the pics I was offering on this particular site weren't the best quality to begin with, so I did overcompress them, but I was told that 550 is too stingy.

I guess it is, but I had been working under the assumption of "don't give them too much".

It got me wondering about how good was too good, and where will it all end?

I'm in two minds. I think Kezza is right - we can't give the surfer everything. But the Porsche analogy is also true.

So perhaps I should go to 600x400 and 80 quality? LOL

Of course, then we get into the whole idea of putting high quality HARDCORE pics on the site, which is definitely going overboard, I think.