Two Things

[phoebe91]

I have two things I guess I want to suggest (Yeah, I guess they are suggestions xD)

HotLinking

I've noticed some hotlinking on the site, mainly to snootysims. I'd really love it if it was in the rules to NOT hotlink.

For anyone that doesn't know what it means, its taking pictures, downloads, etc that isn't yours (like taking pictures from snootysims) and JUST taking the picture URL and posting it here without uploading it to your own server (aka photobucket for most of us xD). So basically you take a picture from someone else's site, and when it loads here, it uses extra bandwidth for them. If they run out of bandwidth, they have to pay MORE money to keep their sites up, or it can shut it down for the rest of the month. With more views, the more bandwidth it uses. It would make it just so much easier on them if we took the extra step of loading it up to our own image places and we don't add to their bandwidth used count.

(Example (Just in case if I didn't explain it well, I'm really bad at explaining this): You take one of my legacy pictures. You right clicked, got the URL to the picture from my photobucket account. You went to another site (Say MTS picture thread). You paste the picture by directly linking to the original source (My Photobucket). YOU just hotlinked the picture (let alone probably claimed it as your own, another issue we are all well aware of xD), so now the bandwidth is being used without my knowing, and more people view the picture. If enough people do, all my bandwidth gets used and no one can view my legacies until the next month.)

WCIF/Great Finds

This also ties into the above if we do this. I would love to start a Where Can I Find and Great Finds threads for both TS2/TS3 (maybe even TS1 if someone feels so inclined). I'm always looking at custom content and I think it'd be fun to share what I find with everyone else. And the WCIF thread could help out anyone. For the Great Finds though, since it would most likely deal with free sites, the less bandwidth we use up for them, the easier they can stay up, so a no hotlinking rule would be helpful for them. Most likely, I'd probably post the most Great Finds since I love looking for stuff and I'd love to share it with others. Just sayin' xD I could also make sure that the pictures that other people post aren't hotlinking, so that the mods don't have to all the time . They need to enjoy the forum too


What do you all think?