So, fellow bloggers, what do you do when someone links to images on your page? Check this one out. Look at about the middle of the page for the post that starts with a bunch of Beautiful South album covers. Somebody's linked ten very random choices from my album list. My Italian's not so good and I have no idea what's going on with that page. The thing is, I don't mind it for one or two. But ten? I ain't Amazon.
In the past I replaced linked photos with something fairly icky. I don't want to sabotage my album page though. Am I being petty?
Posted by mikewolf at October 18, 2004 07:38 PMWhat is that about the sincerst form of flatery? Maybe they are homage to your fine site.
Posted by: Brad on October 19, 2004 10:32 AMI agree with Brad. be flattered, but what I want to know, is what is the obsession with Angela Landsbury?
Posted by: Holly on October 19, 2004 11:24 AMMy host is very cool. They offer hotlink protection, which I've activated, so that no one can make links to my images. Not that it's really been a problem for me, but I don't feel obligated to provide an image hosted on my server space for someone's message board icon. Find your own space to hold the image, dumbass!
Posted by: Lady Crumpet on October 19, 2004 12:46 PMThe page is not an homage, they're just talking about album covers. I just browsed, though, so if the conversation drifted elsewhere I could easily have missed it.
I'd put up "Image stolen from my Blog" notes in its place, or somesuch. Or you could complain to the moderator. It's very bad manners, but also common UBB behavior. I've done it in the past, I admit.
Posted by: Linus on October 19, 2004 05:28 PMLittle bit.
Posted by: Ken Goldstein on October 19, 2004 06:17 PMi use this script from scriptygoddess to protect my images. it's worked well for me in the past.
http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2002/05/07/protect-your-images-with-htaccess/
and if you're still using Dreamhost and use FTP you can upload an .htaccess file.
Posted by: patricia on October 25, 2004 10:49 PM