Proper etiquette is to duplicate the file at reduced size (so as not to steal bandwidth and protect against link rot) and link to the original (so as to provide proper credit) with sufficient information to allow others to find the same source independently (so as to protect against link rot)
I’ve seen quite a few pleas from webcartoonists that hotlinking was costing them significant sums—it’s one of those things which isn’t obvious from the consumer side.
tags—norm I’m familiar with, but the idea of refraining from -type links is new to me.
(Edit: ohhh, you are refering to hotlinking. Sorry. I jumped into this subthread after seeing some of its comments on the Recent Comments page, rather than from reading the full context. I had thought the several of you were refering to -linking rather than
-inlining because I hadn’t read PhilGoetz’s top-level post. Having looked at it now, I see that he did actually inline the images rather than just linking to them. So my comments don’t make sense...but I’ll leave them up for transparency’s sake.)
Proper etiquette is to duplicate the file at reduced size (so as not to steal bandwidth and protect against link rot) and link to the original (so as to provide proper credit) with sufficient information to allow others to find the same source independently (so as to protect against link rot)
Upvoted for rationale (‘don’t direct link’ is a new norm to me, and the reasons behind it weren’t immediately obvious to me).
I’ve seen quite a few pleas from webcartoonists that hotlinking was costing them significant sums—it’s one of those things which isn’t obvious from the consumer side.
Oh, yes; the no hotlinking—i.e. no inlining with
(Edit: ohhh, you are refering to hotlinking. Sorry. I jumped into this subthread after seeing some of its comments on the Recent Comments page, rather than from reading the full context. I had thought the several of you were refering to -linking rather than
Thank you!
Definitely better.