Never Ever Hotlink Images From My Site
by gatsome on Aug.21, 2008, under Awesome Advice
This week’s installment of Awesome Advice is quite timely. Last night I found myself analyzing incoming traffic to this website and I noticed something quite out of place. I was getting traffic from profile.myspace.com/blahblassafsfaslshaas anyways it doesn’t matter. I don’t have any hosted images posted on myspace anywhere. While my bandwidth isn’t quite on a budget I still try and avoid posting images from this domain so I can save it for actual site visitors. I use photobucket for everything web related that requires a witty image or a helpful diagram. So I followed the link to the culprit and had a wonderful idea.
Lo and behold this idiot de jour had an image from my website tiling the background of his page. He hotlinked an image from my website (a Mr. Yuck graphic) for his entire background. It of course was no long a valid image link as I reogranized my site contents and folders. This left me a fantastic opportunity to fuck this guy’s shit all up. I took the two most graphic images I know, goatse and tubgirl. (Don’t look those images up at work, in front of parents, or if you’re a Christian because it’s actually an unwritten 11th Commandment, thou shalt not look upon goatse nor tubgirl) I combined them together and renamed the file correctly and uploaded it to the correct directory and presto! This guy now has the nastiest Myspace background in the entire site.
But it still wasn’t enough, some folks over at Fark.com suggested throwing up the Fark Squirrel so I did. I added it below the others for a HA-HA trifecta of epic preportions. Here’s a picture of the squirrel (yes it’s real):
Before I link you to this moron’s myspace page I want to finish up with a couple thoughts:
- Do not hotlink.
- If you must then don’t do it for major items like ENTIRE BACKGROUNDS
- Bandwidth costs money. I pay annually to have this site hosted and allotted for bandwidth, don’t fuck with me.
- Goatse and Tubgirl are two of some of the most heinous, disgusting, perverse images on the internet. Beware.
Now without further ado, his myspace: http://www.myspace.com/mianross (NSFW)(pops)
Update 8/21/08:
Jim, a beloved fan of the site from Buffalo, NY sent in a screen shot of his report to Tom regarding this riitard’s Myspace page.
Way to go Jim! Funny too! A first!



August 25th, 2008 on 4:52 am
Invalid Friend ID.
This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has been deleted.
haha
August 25th, 2008 on 10:14 am
D’oh.
Looks like Myspace deleted him as their friend. Serves him right, the internet is better off.