Things that really bug me, part 46
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I posted something in frustration and anger that was neither charitable, nor all that interesting for the general readership of this blog. After a little more reflection on the issue at hand, I decided to delete the post.
I know it’s childish but whenever I find people hot linking pics or stuff from my site, I upload to my site a disgusting and embarrassing photo (usually of male genitalia.) With a “don’t steal bandwidth” title and rename it to have the same file name. I then rename my original to something else and go on my merry way. It’s usually posted on their site for a few days at least. In these situation I think that pain is the best form of training.
It’s the little things that help to keep me sane.
hmmmm … that gives me an idea.
I think in apache there’s a way to redirect based on whether or not a request is coming from the local website. I can set all non-local references to something like what you’re suggesting.
that sucks
Did you email them to ask that they remove the code before going public with all this?
There’s no contact info on their site. I traced back the pastor and emailed the address listed on his church site, but I’m not sure how connected he is to the actual design of the site. Haven’t heard back.
Why should he?
Cerise
Wait – since when does Ramon comment here? Sorry, that was me.
My question still stands. Also, it’s a church site? Definitely the genitalia idea. That gets my vote.
Cerise
[quote comment="51639"]Why should he?
Cerise[/quote]
Because there’s a (small) chance whoever did it doesn’t realize it’s uncool. I personally don’t blast someone until I’m sure they deserve it. Not to mention that pesky biblical philosophy of going to your brother/sister one-on-one to resolve a problem. Since it does seem to be a Christian blog.
My 2pennies.
The blogger/pastor mentions in his lyle Lovett post that they both graduated from a high school in my home town. Actually, I’m from Spring, but Klein high school is a local high school in my school district. Fun fact for the day.
Having said that, I’m gonna forego my knee-jerk reaction of assuming he’s a d-bag and go with deborah’s n’ tomtom’s suggestion that you email first and tag as d-bag later. TomTom may have a point that whomever put the code up doesn’t realize that they’re throwing off the emperor’s groove. And I’m extra-willing to extend grace to those that tie me back to the motherland.
[quote comment="51566"]I traced back the pastor and emailed the address listed on his church site … haven’t heard back.[/quote]
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I didn’t chime in, but I think you’re on the right track with pulling the post. I think this falls under the same category as my wife’s pristine sense of ettiquitte. I tell her that it’s all well and good, but she should try not to get too mad when someone less well trained (Chad) steps in poop that they cannot see. Or smell. I’m functionally retarded, is what I’m saying.
Sorry he pimped your code.
Um, I found your comments when I saw about 20 hits from my site from yours on my Google Analytics. Had to do a cached search to understand the replies. I see I will have to add an e-mail address to my blog since I haven’t received the note you attempted to send.
My apologies. I am a newbie at this html stuff. I didn’t
take it from your site but saw the code from some other
site (sorry: no idea where anymore). Just wanted to find a
way to play music on my site thru a Google search I found a player I liked.
Will take it down: Had no idea I was taking bandwidth since the player points to snapdrive where the song is hosted. You mentioned downloading and hosting the “FREE code.” Would like to know where that can be found.
Frankly, Mike, I’m really let down. With the scope of your creativity, you couldn’t have rewritten the post so that everyone who commented looks like an idiot or social misfit? If you’re not writing it, whose material am I gonna steal?
Hey, I’m already a social misfit. No fair piling on!
You’ve got to love that ending. Perfect! (But as a back-up, I like COrey’s idea)