Hotlinking. Say what!?

[DACMAN]

Hey guys, we've been thinking it over, and the hotlinking infraction hasn't quite worked out the way we wanted it to. Instead of being a positive thing, it's moreso just become another way to punish people for breaking a rule, and that's the last thing we want.

So the infraction has been removed and all prior infractions will be null and void, however if you hotlink and it turns to a ban-worthy image from this point on, you will be permanently banned with no recourse, so please, just try to be responsible and host your images, it only takes 30 seconds.

I don't get it. If the image is a ban-worthy image what does hotlinking have to do with it? It's either against the rules to hotlink or it isn't. This new "explanation" just makes it much more confusing. When hotlinking was against the rules at least we understood it was against the rules. Now it is if it is a ban-worthy image?

That's like saying it isn't against the law to run a red light. But if you kill someone and that's why you are running away and through the red lights then it is against the law to run the red lights now too.

It doesn't make any sense. If someone posts a "ban-worthy" image it shouldn't matter whether or not it is hotlinked.

 

[The Spawn]

I think it says, if you hotlink you get banned.

No probation...just straight banned.

Horrible grammar in my book...

So posting an image you hotlinked is similar to posting porn.

I don't give a **** what anyone says, that is what that quoted post says.

 

[Eggyman]

I think I know what it's trying to say, but I also see what it's saying that it isn't trying to say but what it sounds like it's saying.

 

[Showtime]

I think it is pretty cut and dry.

Sometimes a website will embed a erotic or disgusting picture, so when you hotlink from their site, this picture will show up instead of the picture you intended to be.

So it isn't like going through a red light and killing somebody. It is like an old bridge that is falling apart that says "Cross at your own risk". You can choose another way to get across or you can cross the bridge and risk plummeting to your death.

You can host in photobucket or another photo host, or you can risk one of those freaky deaky pictures showing up and being banned.

 

[The Spawn]

You should have posted the sticky.

 

[X-Chick]

I think it is pretty cut and dry.

Sometimes a website will embed a erotic or disgusting picture, so when you hotlink from their site, this picture will show up instead of the picture you intended to be.

So it isn't like going through a red light and killing somebody. It is like an old bridge that is falling apart that says "Cross at your own risk". You can choose another way to get across or you can cross the bridge and risk plummeting to your death.

You can host in photobucket or another photo host, or you can risk one of those freaky deaky pictures showing up and being banned.

that makes a lot more sense. and if we needed to explanation, obviously it wasn't "cut and dry". just saying.

 

[The Spawn]

Cut and dry for a fellow Mod.

 

[Motown Marvel]

wait, so are we allowed to hotlink again or not?

 

[The Spawn]

Yes.

At your own risk of the picture you intend to post being something vulgar and sinister instead due to the person your stealing it from using a security measure.

 

[Ion Kenshin]

I wouldn't say it was cut and dry only to mdos cause I understood exactly what it menat from the beginning.

 

[SpeterMan3]

that makes a lot more sense. and if we needed to explanation, obviously it wasn't "cut and dry". just saying.

Cut and dry for a fellow Mod.

I understood it...

 

[Showtime]

You should have posted the sticky.

They told me I wasn't qualified.

that makes a lot more sense. and if we needed to explanation, obviously it wasn't "cut and dry". just saying.

Well played.

 

[The Spawn]

Well I'm sure you've been through certain situations and seen certain things then.

Or went to the same schools.

 

[Trainwreck2100]

Well that's nice, i hotlinked from the bbc once and got an infraction for it

 

[The Spawn]

That can't afford the bandwith increase.

 

[Drakon]

Showy described in perfectly. I'm going to append the annoucement to include his description.

 

[Drakon]

Well that's nice, i hotlinked from the bbc once and got an infraction for it

Which, unless it turned to meatspin or something, is no longer held against you.