Comments on: Yet another reason to hate livejournal http://www.toneparsons.com/2006/04/20/yet-another-reason-to-hate-livejournal/ Live from the Lilac City!! Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:06:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tone Parsons http://www.toneparsons.com/2006/04/20/yet-another-reason-to-hate-livejournal/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Tone Parsons Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:29:11 +0000 http://www.toneparsons.com/2006/04/20/yet-another-reason-to-hate-livejournal/#comment-109 Yes... you are in the .1%, miftah. Every single day, I'm renaming images on my sites because some smacktard livejournal or myspace user is hotlinking to them. While I do get a ton of bandwidth from my ISP (and I don't even come close to using it all), I would run out and end up with additional charges if I left this unchecked. Of course, it does bring a little light into my dull and dreary life, as I get to replace those images with others of my choosing (and yes... the results can be quite funny... to me at least). Yes… you are in the .1%, miftah.

Every single day, I’m renaming images on my sites because some smacktard livejournal or myspace user is hotlinking to them.

While I do get a ton of bandwidth from my ISP (and I don’t even come close to using it all), I would run out and end up with additional charges if I left this unchecked.

Of course, it does bring a little light into my dull and dreary life, as I get to replace those images with others of my choosing (and yes… the results can be quite funny… to me at least).

]]> By: Miftah http://www.toneparsons.com/2006/04/20/yet-another-reason-to-hate-livejournal/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Miftah Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:51:26 +0000 http://www.toneparsons.com/2006/04/20/yet-another-reason-to-hate-livejournal/#comment-108 You do realize of course that Cappy, 'Flap and I all have LJs, right? We must be the .1%. Oh and I've never gotten a pop-up, nor even a floating banner ad. I think what you're really angry about is the abundance of adolescent, angsty teenagers who treat the web like its the old rumpus room in the basement. And no one likes them anywhere they put their feet up. Livejournal or otherwise. Most of the hotlinking problem is spawned by the owners of the adhouse sites that create those stupid poll pages that give you automatically generated text and links to tuck into your journal. They tell the kids that this is how to get pics and content into your site. So that ad revenue can be generated. The kids don't really know any better. Anyway, its stupid that LJ created an utterly unenforceable TOS that will serve no other purpose than making them look like dicks. Because no reads their TOS page, and certainly in this instance, no one will heed it anyway. You do realize of course that Cappy, ‘Flap and I all have LJs, right? We must be the .1%. Oh and I’ve never gotten a pop-up, nor even a floating banner ad. I think what you’re really angry about is the abundance of adolescent, angsty teenagers who treat the web like its the old rumpus room in the basement. And no one likes them anywhere they put their feet up. Livejournal or otherwise. Most of the hotlinking problem is spawned by the owners of the adhouse sites that create those stupid poll pages that give you automatically generated text and links to tuck into your journal. They tell the kids that this is how to get pics and content into your site. So that ad revenue can be generated. The kids don’t really know any better. Anyway, its stupid that LJ created an utterly unenforceable TOS that will serve no other purpose than making them look like dicks. Because no reads their TOS page, and certainly in this instance, no one will heed it anyway.

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