Soldato
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Drives me batty in the screenshots thread over in PC Games when some numpty decides to quote about 10 large images and just add "nice"!
It's not hard to re-code the forum to disallow or change how image quoting is done.
I might as well pop the question here as it relates to the random image board. I had a 2-day holiday a couple of years back due to hotlinking in that thread, which is against OcUK rules anyway. I just want to clarify what hotlinking means? I thought it meant that you write the bbs code around a url so that it appears as an image instead of the url, like with embedded video and SWF files. Also, like with our sigs. I've known of hotlinking for some 10 years now and we're all doing it, so I need to know which is allowed and which isn't? Cheers![]()
Hotlinking is linking to an image that is hosted on someone elses servers and can therefore change at any time while your link remains the same. I think thats the right explanation... so imageshack etc if your image gets deleted your link gets killed(so isnt hotlinking) rather than swapping it out for a new image which could happen if you link directly to other sites images
Cheers for replies.
I now know for sure what it means.![]()