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Tee hee
I get about 350-450 hits per day on my RuneQuest web site. Of those, some are image/bandwidth leaches. I can't say precisely how many.
I find this annoying, at least if the leach doesn't include a link back to my site. Unfortunately, the lame stats program I have doesn't make it easy to find the leachers.
Today I got lucky. A Warhammer 40K site was hitting my site for 450 hits per week, but only for an image - no link. Now, the link was clearly a forum, so my guess was that someone was using one of my smaller images as a personal icon.
I don't mind people using my images within reason, but 450 hits per week without a link is a bit rude. So I went to the Warhammer site, and discovered that it was in French. Despite five years of high-school French, I can't really read the language (I got a lot of "F's"; I didn't have an ear for languages, although that has changed). But I found a tab for forums, made a few random clicks, and hit the jackpot.
The "Grande Moderateur" of the forum uses my chaos sign image (one I actually drew) as his personal icon. So I made a small improvement. Can you guess what it was?
I don't know if he'll notice or change the link, but eventually I suppose I'll put it back.
Oh, here's a link to the forum, if you were curious.
I find this annoying, at least if the leach doesn't include a link back to my site. Unfortunately, the lame stats program I have doesn't make it easy to find the leachers.
Today I got lucky. A Warhammer 40K site was hitting my site for 450 hits per week, but only for an image - no link. Now, the link was clearly a forum, so my guess was that someone was using one of my smaller images as a personal icon.
I don't mind people using my images within reason, but 450 hits per week without a link is a bit rude. So I went to the Warhammer site, and discovered that it was in French. Despite five years of high-school French, I can't really read the language (I got a lot of "F's"; I didn't have an ear for languages, although that has changed). But I found a tab for forums, made a few random clicks, and hit the jackpot.
The "Grande Moderateur" of the forum uses my chaos sign image (one I actually drew) as his personal icon. So I made a small improvement. Can you guess what it was?
I don't know if he'll notice or change the link, but eventually I suppose I'll put it back.
Oh, here's a link to the forum, if you were curious.