Getting a hotlink gone wrong out of sight

[davewalton]

Quote:What's going on here!? I got a strange threatening message from Jimi that I did something wrong by posting a picture.Can anybody tell me what the picture was!? All I know is it was a man with a third "eye" drinking a glass of juice. All I intended it to be was a humorous response to Johnny.What's wrong with that!?Nothing wrong with the picture of the guy with the third eye drinking a glass of juice. That's the picture I first saw. What happened is that the site you linked to apparently reroutes direct links to horrible pictures after a period of time or after it detects the incoming traffic. In this case it was an outrageously gross picture of a person laying on their back with their legs up in the air spewing a volcano of diarrhea all over themselves. I can't even begin to explain how vulgar this picture was and you would have been horrified to see this associated with your post.I never do direct links to "funny pictures" for this reason. You just never know and in this case it could have been really damaging to someone, say young children, who might happen to be looking on while mom or dad checks into their favorite forum. Dave

[matto]

Yeah Ern...believe me Dave and Jimi were doing you a favor...I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw that picture and thought you'd completely lost it

[Casey H]

Quote:Quote:What's going on here!? I got a strange threatening message from Jimi that I did something wrong by posting a picture.Can anybody tell me what the picture was!? All I know is it was a man with a third "eye" drinking a glass of juice. All I intended it to be was a humorous response to Johnny.What's wrong with that!?Nothing wrong with the picture of the guy with the third eye drinking a glass of juice. That's the picture I first saw. What happened is that the site you linked to apparently reroutes direct links to horrible pictures after a period of time or after it detects the incoming traffic. In this case it was an outrageously gross picture of a person laying on their back with their legs up in the air spewing a volcano of diarrhea all over themselves. I can't even begin to explain how vulgar this picture was and you would have been horrified to see this associated with your post.I never do direct links to "funny pictures" for this reason. You just never know and in this case it could have been really damaging to someone, say young children, who might happen to be looking on while mom or dad checks into their favorite forum. DaveTMI... Too much information! Casey

[ernstinen]

Yikes! The wiseguys and myself over at the NS forum have posted 100's, maybe 1000's of pictures over the years and this has NEVER happened before. As a matter of fact, I've never HEARD of this happening before.Some people are sick. They enjoy their hacking and causing misery to others, quite the opposite of picture posters who are trying to bring a chuckle or a LOL to forum members. These hackers really are evil, sad people. The terrorists of the Internet.Ern

[davewalton]

Quote:Yikes! The wiseguys and myself over at the NS forum have posted 100's, maybe 1000's of pictures over the years and this has NEVER happened before. As a matter of fact, I've never HEARD of this happening before.Some people are sick. They enjoy their hacking and causing misery to others, quite the opposite of picture posters who are trying to bring a chuckle or a LOL to forum members. These hackers really are evil, sad people. The terrorists of the Internet.Ern A lot of times they reroute outside traffic to the linked picture with something like this (I'm hotlinking to my own server so I know it's OK):Other times (sites that seem fine on the surface but aren't) the original picture link is rerouted to a random collection of horrible pictures, like the one that came up here, autopsy photos of children, etc. Totally sick.