I'd like to point out a wierd hacking attack -

[hedgehog]

Yesterday i posted a link to a photo of Trayvon Martin and his family from this Scopes page:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/martin.asp

The link worked fine yesterday, but todauy waht you see on my post is a big green Yuck face. I went back to Scopes, and the photo is still there, but if you try to link to the photo, you get a Yuck face.

[Ohio Joe]

1. You are probably hot-linking to the pic...

I do not know where your other post is but... I suspect you are linking directly to the picture so that it shows up in your post. This uses bandwidth for the site you are linking to every time the post is looked at... A lot of sites tend to frown on that and will sometimes change the link so that you see something other then intended.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Perhaps Snopes is letting you know

that they don't appreciate hot-linking to photos on their website, which uses their available bandwidth. Try saving the photo to a photo-hosting service like Photobucket or Flickr, then link to the photo saved to your account. Everything should be alright.

[hedgehog]

3. Oops!

Thanks!



Mods - if you can breaks the link, I'd appreciate it!

[Cirque du So-What]

5. Can you still edit your post?

In that case, you can simply go into edit mode and either delete the direct link to the Snopes webpage or go the route I mentioned earlier, in which you replace the link to the photo on Snopes with one to the photo from your photo-sharing account.

I've played fast-and-loose with hot-linking in the past, but I'm much more circumspect nowadays. One time, I hot-linked to a photo, and the admins replaced the photo with some really gnarly porn. It was quite embarrassing for me.

[MineralMan]

6. You can edit your own post, you know.

I'd advise doing just that.

There's always a risk when you hot-link to a photo that the owner of the location of that photo will substitute something else for the hot-link. In some cases, the result is really, really obscene.

People don't like their bandwidth hijacked in some cases.

[hedgehog]

8. Thanks ! I didn't realize the time limit on editting had been lifted!

[MineralMan]

9. There's no limit.

[hootinholler]

11. Mods?

That's so DU2

[Just Saying]

4. Nice pictures of Trayvon with his family.

And I like the debunking of all whining about using pics of Tryavon as younger. Of course the same people whining call Trayvon a football player although he hadn't played on a team since he was 13.

[HolyMoley]

7. You got off easy.

If it was someones blog, personal site or a website that plays by it's own rules, they could have swapped out the hot linked pic with something a little more embarrassing or eye opening.

[Posteritatis]

10. That's not a hacking attack, it's a bandwidth theft prevention script. (nt)