Mass Myspace Goatse'ing

[renderman]

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000278.html

Why you should not hotlink images

[Thorn]

Re: Mass Myspace Goatse'ing

An outstanding story! I'm going to have to buy Jason a beer when we next cross paths.

[theprez98]

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I was able to successfully describe Goatse to my wife without the horror of showing her the picture. ;)

[noid]

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I was having problems with people hotlinking to the graphics on the LA2600 website. I would periodically change the graphics to goatse or something equally horrible (lemonparty). Sometimes even with edited graphics saying things like 'People that hotlink are fucking tools'. Problem seems to have stopped.

[TheCotMan]

Re: Mass Myspace Goatse'ing

That is so funny!^H^H^H^H^H^H awful!

Nice story, good humor, quite entertaining.

Random image generation to hotlinks can also be fun. Let some loads of the image look as expected, but let others be the "new an improved" image.

It takes longer for it to catch on, and some people will still see the old image, with caching working the way it does.

"What is wrong with your page?"
"Nothing. It looks normal."
"So you put all of those images up there on purpose?"
"Of course! They really describe me as a person."
(Substitute leet-speak in the above text on your own.)

[Rance]

Re: Mass Myspace Goatse'ing

I want that last few minutes of my life back and would anyone know a good psychologist I think I need one now. Not to mention the fact that it scares the hell out of me thinking that

Within two days it was 25,000. Twenty five thousand.

might be the same couple of people over and over from different computers. Plus I love it, I love it, I love it!

Oh noid you should use pool girl sometime

[Jason Scott]

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might be the same couple of people over and over from different computers.

There's a chance of that, but I've been using the ol 'sort -u" and I can swear I'm past 100,000 unique sites.

[converge]

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I remember hotlinking ... back when it was encouraged because free hosting was no more than 2000 bytes and by sharing common images the same bandwidth would get sucked down but require less individually carved disk space..

[renderman]

Re: Mass Myspace Goatse'ing

There's a chance of that, but I've been using the ol 'sort -u" and I can swear I'm past 100,000 unique sites.

I think we need to start a new meme and replace the current Goatse with pool2girl?

Congrats Jason, you've probobly permanently scarred more myspace users than any of us could have ever hoped to have .

[Rance]

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But renderman do you think they would fall for it a second time. With the first one being a "nice" wake up call they should be looking out for it again right (hopefully), and if not well then I give up on society completely.

[Note] I am out of role and attempting to play optimist[/Note]

[converge]

Re: Mass Myspace Goatse'ing

never underestimate the stupidity of humanity, but never forget their amazing ability to limp past it 80% of the time

[bascule]

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SketchCow gets promoted in my mind to the status of a god for doing that