A remedy for hotlinking
Sep. 24th, 2006 02:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterFor the last several months, someone's been hotlinking an image on my Jordan Greywolf Art Gallery as his forum avatar. It's been using a significant amount of my bandwidth, in fact. Not enough to put me in any danger, but it's still been annoying.
Finally, I had it. Enough's enough. So I went into photoshop and made a nice little 100x100 image that was small enough that it wouldn't take up much of my bandwidth, but it would get the point across. I uploaded it onto my site, renamed the hotlinked image and changed the link in the art gallery index page (it's the Bat-Shadow one), and then made the old name a symbolic link to the 100x100 image file.
Just for giggles, go to this forum page and do a text-find on "fledermaus".
Wonder how long it'll be before he notices?
Edit, 9/26: He's noticed, he's changed his image to another one. And this time it's actually one hosted on the bulletin board itself. Heh.
The image to which I changed the one he was hotlinking was:
I only wish I could see if anybody mentioned the "steal bandwidth" icon in discussion threads in which he participated. I can't search on his name because I'd have to be logged in, and for some reason I can't get the damned thing to send me my confirmation email for creating an account.
Finally, I had it. Enough's enough. So I went into photoshop and made a nice little 100x100 image that was small enough that it wouldn't take up much of my bandwidth, but it would get the point across. I uploaded it onto my site, renamed the hotlinked image and changed the link in the art gallery index page (it's the Bat-Shadow one), and then made the old name a symbolic link to the 100x100 image file.
Just for giggles, go to this forum page and do a text-find on "fledermaus".
Wonder how long it'll be before he notices?
Edit, 9/26: He's noticed, he's changed his image to another one. And this time it's actually one hosted on the bulletin board itself. Heh.
The image to which I changed the one he was hotlinking was:
I only wish I could see if anybody mentioned the "steal bandwidth" icon in discussion threads in which he participated. I can't search on his name because I'd have to be logged in, and for some reason I can't get the damned thing to send me my confirmation email for creating an account.
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Date: 2006-09-24 08:16 am (UTC)Someone had decided to hotlink to a "sunshine" graphic, and was using it on a Christian religious forum. When I saw it, and where it was posted (this person was a prolific poster; over 2,000 posts and all with this graphic), I swapped it out for a picture of an almost-topless woman. The comments on the forum were...interesting.