Should we make hotlinking a bannable offense?

Do you know where in the heirarchy of stupid bitching about image hotlinking is, Acer?

It's a step up from bitching about the spelling of Aeris vs Aerith, for one. (It's BEEN TEN YEARS)

It's below dismissing evolution as poor science by a group of people who have never had science outside of a high school level.

It's also below pro-lifers defending their choice to never adopt or foster other people's children.

It's above internet wars over who decided to be a purple-furred husky first.

But, it's below teenagers complaining of their ennui and suggesting that they might as well kill themselves.

I'd say it's right around the level of internet geeks taking pictures of themselves sans shirt.



This is the stratum you lie in, Acer. Observe yourself and weep.

How ya doing, buddy?

Yeah, that was mean. I should've censored it. That's too much gut for one jpeg, hotlinked or not.

Sorry Acer, my bad.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

But your agenda, as I have said, is akin to fatbeards.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I defend my right to link directly to fatbeards other than my own! It's not like they're using any of that bandwidth anyway, no one visits their sites.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

Really, I'd only put a ban in place for repeat tripod loool image offenders and when webhost owners come in complaining about hotlinkers. If the hotlinked image still works and noone is complaining then everything is Ecto Cooler.

You want to punish posters because little girls with huge egos know how to check their traffic logs? What?

You're really giving the Aeris / Aerith fagdance a run for its money, here. This is not a good thing.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Mojougwe

The problem with hotlinking is it doesn't show an image on certain user's browsers for WHATEVER WACKY REASON THERE COULD BE WITH THAT PERSON'S COMPUTER SYSTEM BROWSER. And when you combine that state of being with moderator/administrator powers, you'd best have that doom song handy from Invader Zim.

So you want to ban people to prevent broken images, is that what you're saying?

At the cost of sounding like a cliche, aren't there better reasons to ban people for?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?