So I got a trackback referral from a site called Damon & Klitt’s Two Cents yesterday, and I surfed on over to see what they were saying about me that earned a link. Turns out they’d just hotlinked an image from my blog, so I posted a comment kindly requesting that they take it down. And, in addition to removing the photo, they also removed my comment (and you know how I feel about comment deletion). In addition to all of this, they removed the photo they were hotlinking from me … and replaced it with an image they’re hotlinking to from horrordvds.com.
Damon & Klitt, you actually haven’t written a bad review of George Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead”, but I guarantee your continued use of hotlinking isn’t going to make you many fans in the world of the blogosphere. A quick glance at your archive list shows you’re pretty new to this, as if your continued and unrepentant use of hotlinking wasn’t a big enough clue.
You guys could use one. A clue, I mean. I sort of figured leaving you a comment about it might, y’know, “clue” you in, but I guess it didn’t. I really, truly, hope you make use of some free service — flikr? — to host your images in the future so that you don’t risk further alienation of your fellow bloggers.
Best of luck to the both of you in your future endeavors. May they be hotlink free.
(And seriously – you’ll post your phone number but not an e-mail contact? Goodness gracious moi!)
wait. for like the first six months of blogging i had no clue what hotlinking was. then i tried to find out deffinitions and still didnt understand it. It wasnt untill one blogger took me aside and explained how to save it to my desktop, that I started doing that.
maybe they do not know how to save them?
Comment by bluepaintred — April 19, 2007 @ 1:07 am
Hi, I run a blog called Gamer Bait, and am the guy that set up the blog for Damon and Klitts. I incidentally got here via a trackback referral as well. Klitts did in fact hotlink an image as you said, and for that I apologize. All hotlinking issues have been resolved.
As for the email contact…it’s directly underneath the Comment Line phone number.
Sorry for the inconvenience, and take care.
Comment by headstronGLOCK23 — April 19, 2007 @ 1:12 am
Wow… guess you got their attention, huh?
Comment by sue — April 19, 2007 @ 9:10 am
I have to agree with you. I don’t delete comments, even if they disagree with me, and I wouldn’t want someone hotlinking from my site. I only have deleted a comment once, but that was only because it was totally inappropriate and not related to my post at all.
Comment by Lynda — April 19, 2007 @ 9:33 am
Wow. I sure did not mean to offend anyone. I am quite new to running a blog and what not, so you’ll have to forgive me when I mistakenly linked to your site. I took the image down, and my partner (Who is more experienced than I) replaced them and then explained to me the do’s and dont’s. After I resolved this problem, I simply took down the comment because I figured the issue had been closed. I did not mean to offend anyone, and we sure hope that everyone on this web site will accept our apology. We intended to do no harm.
In the mean time, all of our contact info (including e-mail) has been conveniently located in the sidebar for your convenience.
Comment by Klitts — April 19, 2007 @ 9:54 pm
Being a graphic artist of a sort (the low-tech sort), I’m always worried about copyright, so I never use images that aren’t my own or at the very least, clip arts that I own. Or I suppose the odd html thingy from a meme. I’m not sure I’d know how to hotlink. It’s good to know that it makes people mad. I will avoid it… also, I guess I ought to make sure I have a contact e-mail. Always something new to learn.
Comment by Marilyn — April 20, 2007 @ 12:42 am
waaaaaaaaaah! :)
Comment by american geisha — April 20, 2007 @ 6:53 am