I’ve just looked at my website’s stats, and people left right and center are coming in and killing (relative to the 3 and a half bytes of traffic I get a month usually) me with linking to my photo1alter.jpg I mentioned in my previous post as an aside.
I’ve got people seemingly coming across it all the time through image searches on the term ‘junk’ (for google, it’s on the first page, but only barely), people on myspace linking to it, and it’s posted on forums for some reason. It’s not that interesting a picture, they don’t even say much about it, if anything, it’s just a half-meg picture they link to which has been downloaded, apparently, over 500 times. Nutso.
Instead of just locking those sites out with the no-hotlink-for-you bit, which would be cruel, I’m just going to move it elsewhere. Perhaps to be slowly rediscovered again, I’ll put a downsampled one in it’s place to keep from breaking the interwebs
Looking closer, it was worse in January, but I didn’t realize it.. I forgot to carry the one