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IMPORTANT: Hotlinking to images (posting images from another site)
POSTED BY: duckmagicuk2 2 months, 1 week agoThere's been another case here today where someone has "hotlinked" an image from another site. The image was then replaced by a naughty and extremely obscene picture by the site owners which was then displaying on HotUKDeals.
Hotlinking is basically where you take the URL (web address) of an image that is hosted on another site, such as "http://www.hotukdeals.com/images/alerts_rss.gif" and post it here in a comment/reply. Whilst it takes a very unscroupulous site to do something as harsh as change their links to dirty pictures, it's still considered bad manners to link directly to an image on someone else's site as this uses up their paid-for bandwidth.
So we are, once again, urging all users to use extreme caution when posting images from other sites.
To avoid problems and be polite to other hosts, please upload the image to a site such as the ones in this list:
www.imageshack.us
www.tinypic.com
www.photobucket.com (free account needed)
This does not affect the images in deal posts as they are automatically re-sized and uploaded to the HUKD server. Obviously, if it's a deal for a TV at Argos and you want to post a reply with a picture of a different TV at Argos or something along those lines then it's not really a worry.
Please post here if you need any help uploading any pictures to an imagehost, or if you have any questions.
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duckmagicuk2:
The swear filter wouldn't cover anything in image tags as far as I know.  I tried posting a pic the other day that had a naughty word in it (I didn't realise), and that bit of the URL was replaced with asterisks.Like this for example: www.thewordwas*****.co.uk Last edited by nightswimmer : 11-05-2008 at 18:16. |
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nightswimmer:
Yeah it does. I tried posting a pic the other day that had a naughty word in it (I didn't realise), and that bit of the URL was replaced with asterisks.Like this for example: www.thewordwas*****.co.uk  Of course the complete URL inc co.uk would work! |
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guv:
You are assuming the company has a distinguished name and not "www.greatukdeals.co.uk" Now that would make good reading in the forum if you banned "great uk and deals" Of course the complete URL inc co.uk would work!
I was just pointing out that the swear filter does pick up words within the image tags. As for the suggestion of using the swear filter for this problem, I don't see the point. Stable doors and bolting horses spring to mind.  |
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nightswimmer:
I'm not assuming anything. I was just pointing out that the swear filter does pick up words within the image tags.
Just pointing out that the company name needs to be something that can be filtered without censuring everyday words! Far easier just to now allow the company to have posts here if thats what they are like! |
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guv:
You are assuming the company has a distinguished name and not "www.greatukdeals.co.uk" Now that would make good reading in the forum if you banned "great uk and deals" Of course the complete URL inc co.uk would work!
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