Half Life and Opposing Force spatial continuum - Page 2

Jeysie · 12-12-2006, 07:16 AM

*ahem*

While the way he phrased it is rather immature, I can understand the irritation that comes from people hotlinking and stealing your bandwidth.

I still remember the ridiculous hoops I had to go through when someone at the City of Heroes forums decided to hotlink one of my images at their avatar. My bandwidth usage shot up - nearly reaching my limit - and my "recently accessed files" log became utterly useless.

Due to not having any actual e-mail contacts displayed for the forum admins, I had to create a tech support ticket (even though I don't own the game) and then wrangle a forum registration (because it was limited to customers, and you couldn't post as a guest), then ask the poster to remove the avatar, then when he didn't respond, ask the forum admins to do the same. Sheer madness.

Anyhoo. Uh. Hotlinking is bad, m'kay?

Peace & Luv, Liz

*Dale Baldwin* · 12-12-2006, 08:18 AM

Would have helped if you'd reported that to the mods, guys (with the little

).
The offending image is now gone.

SCRUGAtes13 · 12-12-2006, 04:27 PM

what the hell happened here?!

12-12-2006, 07:16 AM	#21
Jeysie Diva of Death Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Western Massachusetts Posts: 1,402	ahem While the way he phrased it is rather immature, I can understand the irritation that comes from people hotlinking and stealing your bandwidth. I still remember the ridiculous hoops I had to go through when someone at the City of Heroes forums decided to hotlink one of my images at their avatar. My bandwidth usage shot up - nearly reaching my limit - and my "recently accessed files" log became utterly useless. Due to not having any actual e-mail contacts displayed for the forum admins, I had to create a tech support ticket (even though I don't own the game) and then wrangle a forum registration (because it was limited to customers, and you couldn't post as a guest), then ask the poster to remove the avatar, then when he didn't respond, ask the forum admins to do the same. Sheer madness. Anyhoo. Uh. Hotlinking is bad, m'kay? Peace & Luv, Liz Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ Adventures in Roleplaying (Nov. 19): "Maybe it's still in the Elemental Plane of Candy." "Is the Elemental Plane of Candy anything like Willy Wonka's factory?" "If it is, would that mean Oompa Loompas are Candy Elementals?" "Actually, I'm thinking more like the Candyland board game. But, I like this idea better." "I like the idea of Oompa Loompa Elementals."

12-12-2006, 08:18 AM	#22
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