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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah, I love doing this to people.

It was originally the same Renji pic that everyone's hotlinking. Don't blame them, actually; it's really nice.

ETA: Now to figure out why the hell it's giving me Kenpachi-chan when I link to it from LJ... the .htaccess file should be letting through everyone I don't explicitly say no to.

ETA2: Caching issue, actually. Not a problem. :) Right-click and choose "View Image" or force a browser refresh if the link on "it's really nice" gives you Kenpachi-chan.

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Well, so much for learning a lesson as far as the Gaia guy is concerned. Of course, he's probably either totally ignorant about things like bandwidth limits or just the kind of person who thinks they should be an exception to common courtesy because they're Just That Speshul (my bet is on option #2). Ten gets you one he thinks you're a jerk who's making a fuss over nothing.

Probably. And I technically am - I get 5 terabytes bandwidth a month, and I doubt he's so internet popular as to suck any measurable amount of my bandwidth.* But it's fun to imagine them thinking about how long that beautiful picture of Kenpachi-chan has been featured on their page...

* One of the reasons I keep a close eye on hotlinking is I don't want any quizzes hotlinking from me, because *that* can eat my bandwidth like nobody's business if it takes off.

You are and you aren't - it's not going to affect your bandwidth much, but there's other people existing on the hairy edge of their bandwidth limits, and he may well be hotlinking from them too, and screwing them up. If he'd learned the lesson (hotlinking=bad) then you'd have done them a service.

Unfortunately, Gaia-dude is either too ignorant or too selfish to figure that out.

Yeah, you don't want to get slashdotted by proxy. :P

Yeah. :D Right now my biggest bandwidth suck is the various flavors of Google Images, which is a two-edged sword - I want people to be able to find my doujinshi, but I'm also vaguely annoyed at having that be the largest number of hits on my site. But if I blocked Google Images, a huge number of people would never run across me. Ah well. I'll just whine about it.

(What really bugs me is the odd page where I can't figure out why I got a hit from it - I've got a low but steady stream of hits, like 2-3 a day, from aimtoday.com/aimtoday (or something like that), which is obviously a dynamic page, but I don't know if it's because someone has the zanpakuto meme in their AIM profile, or because they're hotlinking me. Hrm. Same with the Myspace bulletin page I'm getting occasional hits from. And today I noticed a site written in Hebrew that looks like it might have profiles, so I don't now again if it's the zanpakuto or hotlinking getting me the hits.

None of them are extensive hits, so it really doesn't matter as of yet, it's just all annoying mysteries.

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