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[kazalala]

Im not exactly sure what hotlinking is but i mainly use photobucket so i guess im ok Personally i cant say i have noticed any difference to myself since we got a load of new mods, but thats probably cos im a very good girl

[jimbo]

Originally Posted by kazalala

Im not exactly sure what hotlinking is but i mainly use photobucket so i guess im ok Personally i cant say i have noticed any difference to myself since we got a load of new mods, but thats probably cos im a very good girl

me too mackem


can someone please post a hotlink so i can see what a hotlink is then i wont ever do it

[kazalala]

Originally Posted by jimbo

me too mackem


can someone please post a hotlink so i can see what a hotlink is then i wont ever do it

Oh JIm ,,, you are naughty..........but i like it

[Chezzie]

I found this.

Free Hotlinking Checker

http://www.free-webhosts.com/hotlinking-checker.php

Try it and if you see a red x or a broken image its ok

[jimbo]

Originally Posted by Chezzie

I found this.

Free Hotlinking Checker

http://www.free-webhosts.com/hotlinking-checker.php

Try it and if you see a red x or a broken image its ok

chezzer my lovley little mod bud i dont even know what an url is , have i posted any hotlinks lately , i really dont have a clue about puters , before i joined fg i just about knew how to turn one on , then another fg member told me how to paste stuff the rest is history


jimbo is as confused as a baby in a topless bar

[koochikoo]

I got my fingies smacked for hotlinking I didn't know that I'd done it . Could someone please explain to me what it is, in layman terms as if they were explaining it to a 5 year old?

[Chezzie]

The reason we decided to post this was for peeps to ask those kind of questions Kooks, it was to try and help you guys as TS doesnt want any hotlinking here and it has gone under the radar for quite a while and its pretty obvious that alot of people cant have known they were doing it if they dont even understand what it is. I will try and explain.

URL
Acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. Addressing system used in the World Wide Web and other Internet resources. An address such as "http://www.forumgarden.com" is a URL. Most say ‘web address’.

[kazalala]

Originally Posted by Chezzie

The reason we decided to post this was for peeps to ask those kind of questions Kooks, it was to try and help you guys as TS doesnt want any hotlinking here and it has gone under the radar for quite a while and its pretty obvious that alot of people cant have known they were doing it if they dont even understand what it is. I will try and explain.

URL
Acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. Addressing system used in the World Wide Web and other Internet resources. An address such as "http://www.forumgarden.com" is a URL. Most say ‘web address’.

clear as mud then

[RedGlitter]

Inline linking (also known as hotlinking, leeching, piggy-backing, direct linking, offsite image grabs and bandwidth theft) is the use of a linked object, often an image, from one site into a web page belonging to a second site. The second site is said to have an inline link to the site where the object is located.

If you are on a website with say, a penguin on it and you want to post the picture of the penguin here, the correct thing to do would be to copy that penguin to your computer, by right clicking and selecting "Save image as..."

The wrong thing to do, hotlinking, would be to copy the penguin right off that page and then paste it in your post at FG.

Maybe Chezzie can explain better. I'm not the best at it.

By the way, probably most of us have hotlinked at least a few times. I did it regularly myself. We mods are not trying to make any members feel bad for this so please know that. We're just doing what Tombstone (the man who runs FG) has asked us to do. The reason being, when you hotlink an image, it's called bandwidth stealing. I don't know enough about bandwidth to explain it properly but basically, it's making the owner of that site pay for your use of his graphics.

[Kathy Ellen]

Great explanations Chez and Red....all clear now for me