look!!!!
i almost feel myself to be a reg here now..........
but i still can't get bricks to fall on me 'ead or set meself on fire with huge exlosions etc......
is someone gonna finally tell me how kinky does his animations???? ffs???
and please ignore the fact i'm an op and should know this stuff ok???
neil x x x x x x
Well there is a huge problem with these animated gifs being used. Yes I know they are all very funny and have most of us in creases, but alas, given a few weeks most of the thread with these in will of changed the URL and the picture becomes a little white box with a red cross in it. This is known as a dead link.
With so many pictures being used from other sites it will soon become a problem if ever you wanted to re-read any threads because of the dead links that have occured over time.
I suppose the only other way to ensure they all stay on is to put them all in free web page hosting site and link to that. But then that would be stealing and you would get a smacked bottom if the creator found out. I won't tell if you don't.
The other problem is a bandwidth one which is why you see so many people with graphics intensive websites saying "please do not link to this page, download the image to your own page".
Let's say that the owner of a webpage gets 100 Mbytes of free bandwidth per month and he has a 100 Kbyte image on his webpage. If someone on here links to that image in one of their posts then every time someone reads the post our server goes to the other guys webpage and dowloads the image. If the post on here gets 1000 views then the poor guy who's webpage it is has lost all of his free bandwidth for the month and nobody (apart from the guy that linked to the image in the first place) has even seen his page.
Please guys, if the owner of the webpage requests that you don't link to his images, then please don't.
Steve
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