Can you Believe This?
 

http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...&threadid=4993
Now Look Here
http://crazyfuckedupshit.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7757

A meteoric rise?

Too late :)
He must have looked at his board and saw the same message for an avitar. He was hotlinking his avitar from our board.

lol....I did see that but it didn't hit home!

Yeah, he changed it quickly on his board. He can't change it here. :)

I am going to setup a simple anti hotlinking htaccess file now. People are doing it all over and even with our smilies.

Risking ridicule for a couple of kilobytes of bandwidth.....tis sad indeed.

I don't get it either...
But, some people just don't understand.

Jim
Some |sad| shit |lightsabe

Guys
You would not believe the number of people that are hotlinking all sorts of things we have. I mean, steal the smilies...don't hotlink them :) That was the only Avitar I found but I am looking.

They are just being lazy and using a URL where the image already is.

htaccess will fix the problem. ;)

Not really Cleo...
Since we send out newsletters, our images have to be available to the world. I am working on something though.

I have the same problem over at my link list.

I have a sub folder where I turned off mod_rewrite for my mailing images, but everything else is protected on my domain. I usually rename this sub folder every few months and there really isn't all that much to hotlink in there anyway. If you know of a better solution I would love to hear it.

I will probabably do the same thing Cleo.

Damn Ernie, why did you do that? We Belgians have a reputation to build here on GG&Jim |violin|

I find out about more boards from reading this board than any other board.

I think Belgians are generally great people... you gave the world Stella, for starters. :)

Sheesh!

Seems like the old rules have gone out the window..:(

Hot linkers everywhere |pissed|

DD

Fonz
You are doing plenty to make Belgians look good :) I actually had no idea where Ernie was from. I just figured he was just another hotlinker. They do come from all over, you know :)

Hotlinking sux :(

I remember fucks from chatropolis burned 5 gb of my 10 gb plan hotlinking ....

Thank you for these kind words sir :D
(btw. are you gonna bitch about this on the radio show tonight? :D )

Urb: yeah, Stella is one of our finest export products (alltough I think they brew the Stella you have in the UK in a UK brewery :) )

That sucks...

The really sad thing is that the "old rules" and old community way of doing business has really gone out the window as well. I only see good webmaster relations being built on GG&J and a very very small handful of other sites/programs. It's not the way things used to be at all.

I mean, I know things change - it's part of the process - but the thing I always liked MOST about this industry was the feeling of community and the way people worked together. Sure, there were always a few "bad eggs" that would come by, pull some stupid shit like this and we would flame them on the boards and watch them go bye-bye. But unfortunately this type of behavior, lack of respect, cluelessness - has all become the "norm" in this industry.

*sigh* I know you can't go back... but sometimes I wish I could.

|angry|

Talked to Mental Ernie earlier.
He said he felt really bad about what happened. And that he would explain the situation to you if he could post on this board, but he can't anymore :)

So let me post this in his place please...
He sent this to Jim personally to...