Netiquette question

[CTho9305]

I have an image on my site that gets lots of traffic. It's got very high rank on google images for common searches. After some idiot inlined the 4000x3000px full-size version as his blog background, I hid the full size files in a subdirectory with a password. People continue to use the small version.

Looking through my logs, I noticed that somebody was using it on an auction... that has been dealt with (scroll down to the animation below the big green text for an amusing coincidence ). If you viewed the image first, your browser's cache probably causes you not to see what it gets replaced with.

My question for all of you is, what's the appropriate action for the incompetent bloggers who probably don't know better? (each word is a link).

Something along the lines of the auction? An image telling them how to get the image themselves? Rude text? Something else? My bandwidth isn't costing me anything, and I haven't noticed slowdowns from the traffic (except since the auctions started producing thousands of hits per day).

Thanks.

UPDATE: Well, some of the blogs (myspace) got the fat bikini. Xanga got a cake in a urinal. I noticed today that a decent number have been "temporarily disabled for special maintenance".

 

[tfinch2]

Move the image files to another folder and screw up their crappy blogs.

 

[Conky]

umm, get over it or do the goat thing.

 

[Sukhoi]

You're too kind.

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: CTho9305
what it gets replaced with.

Is that the best you can do? :evil:
No mercy to bandwith thieves even if it is free.

 

[mchammer]

Can't offer too much advice here. But your sig comments like:

War - the only way Americans learn geography.

Should be left to P&N. It is needlessly insulting and seems silly to all of the Americans who know geography.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Defenitely goatse.

 

[Printer Bandit]

lemonparty

 

[KingofCamelot]

Originally posted by: mchammer
Can't offer too much advice here. But your sig comments like:

War - the only way Americans learn geography.

Should be left to P&N. It is needlessly insulting and seems silly to all of the Americans who know geography.

I found it funny, and I know geography...and in some cases it is true. I remember some news article about whatever percentage of Americans that didn't know where Iraq and Afghanistan were before the war on terror. I also remember some really pathetic percentage of people that couldn't point out New York state on a map. Wish I could find that again, interesting statistics.

 

[HN]

destroy them

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Defenitely goatse.

my thoughts exactly

 

[TNTrulez]

:beer:

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: quakefiend420

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Defenitely goatse.

my thoughts exactly

 

[chcarnage]

There was once a fun pic topic in a closed forum, visited only by friends of mine. I hotlinked pictures from different sources which got like, ten hits each. Next time I met the friends at our local they mocked my definition of a funny picture. I went home, flushed the cache, and surprise surprise, one of my funny pics has turned in a 1600*1200 photo of a glans with ejaculate on it. Owned.

 

[JackRipper]

Originally posted by: CTho9305
I have an image on my site that gets lots of traffic. It's got very high rank on google images for common searches. After some idiot inlined the 4000x3000px full-size version as his blog background, I hid the full size files in a subdirectory with a password. People continue to use the small version.

Looking through my logs, I noticed that somebody was using it on an auction... that has been dealt with (scroll down to the animation below the big green text for an amusing coincidence ). If you viewed the image first, your browser's cache probably causes you not to see what it gets replaced with.

My question for all of you is, what's the appropriate action for the incompetent bloggers who probably don't know better? (each word is a link).

Something along the lines of the auction? An image telling them how to get the image themselves? Rude text? Something else? My bandwidth isn't costing me anything, and I haven't noticed slowdowns from the traffic (except since the auctions started producing thousands of hits per day).

Thanks.

teh link to ur "who " she looks kinda cute.. teh cristina girl lolz...

 

[imported_Stew]

Just disable hotlinks. No need to be mean about it.

 

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damn filters..sometimes such pics are necessary

 

[PottedMeat]

an auction you say? maybe something with swastikas? something that says "Free 2nd Day Air Shipping" or that buy one get one free?

 

[IronWing]

I am proud to have you as a fellow member of ATOT with your most excellent solution. I made a replace gif saying "Using images without consent and without credit is unethical" after a school site, teachers not students, leached images on my site.

The biggest problem I've had is with livejournal users who leach stuff and it goes out to all their "friends" pages and our bandwidth goes through the roof. A 10000 x 1 pixel transparent gif works wonders.

 

[Fritzo]

get a pic from a search on Lemon Party (try not to look at them though if you do it, trust me on this).

 

[Appledrop]

Originally posted by: Stew
Just disable hotlinks. No need to be mean about it.

aye no need to scar people who are probably much like your sister or uncle for life , im sure they mean no harm!

 

[CTho9305]

Updated.

 

[batmanuel]

You should definitely lay down the tub girl on their butts.