A lil comic about spaming

[bunnygirle78]

Ok, so its a neopets thing, but I think it rings true for most boards.


Altador Mini Comic

Bunny, did you even read Dia's edit in your last post?~DM of SC, and yes, V <p>

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Just one thing, don't make me go Chibi on your ass.</p>Edited by: DragonMistressSCV at: 3/25/06 6:52

[Idran1701]

It doesn't look like DeviantArt lets you direct link to their images, unfortunately.

Still managed to see it, though. I liked it! <p>

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[bunnygirle78]

thaks for fixing it I thought it would work <p>

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[pd Rydia]

The problem isn't that the link won't work, the problem is that directly linking to image files (.jpg, .gif, .png) on the DA server can get you and your IP permanently banned from DA. From what I have seen, browsing about !banned-accounts (a hobby mine) the DAdmins are rather strict about this, not particularly prone to giving second chances and ignorance is not an adequate defense.


Why DA will ban you for this:
0 • DA (and indeed, many others) calls this hotlinking, and it drains them of bandwidth--which costs money.

Also, DA is hosting your art. Perhaps reasonably, if you are pimping it, they want people to see the art hosted within the context of their website, the comments, the DA community, and all-importantly the DA ads and promos. It's how I signed up for the site (I wanted to leave comments D= )


Explanation of hotlinking and bandwidth:
1 • Y'see, whenever I pull up this page we are reading right now, all the images we see are pulling on bandwidth from some originating server. Some images are using bandwidth from the ezboard.com server, like the image for sticky topics; some of them are from the zeke.tzo.com server, like the posticons (). Likewise...

2 • If you link an image from deviantart.com, it will use bandwidth from their server.

3 • Bandwidth costs money. If hotlinking is not kept in check, this could cost them lots and lots of money--especially when people start using DA to host avatars for popular forums.
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What you do......
DA wants you to link to the HTML page wherein your image is located. And thus, your posts are edited to keep you from getting banned before DA can take punitive action.

I'm not entirely sure what mechanisms are used to detect hotlinking--DM may know more about that than I do. <p>

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[Deeum]

I don't exactly know.
Some can me found by other people who notice you linking from a place you're not suppose to, and others are found if the servers notice an odd amount of bandwith activity from a certain file/image hosted. Maybe they can track down where said files are being pimp'd across the net?

Againl; I'm not exactly sure on how this works. But I think you get the jist. <p><div style="text-align:center">

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[pd Rydia]

There's a way to block images that are being loaded on an HTML page not on your server (something awful, geocities, etc.), so I imagine there's a way to detect when images are being loaded on foreign servers. But, yeah. <p>

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