Posted on 01/03/2004 5:51:16 AM PST by I Am Not A Mod
Edited on 01/03/2004 9:23:56 AM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]
Hello everyone.
Occasionally we have had to point this out to people on threads, but I don't think the word is getting around because it keeps happening.
Some Freepers like posting images on Free Republic, which is fine by me. Some are absolutely hilarious.
And some Freepers like to go to Rotten.com to look at the graphics there, and then decide to post them to threads here.
The problem is that Rotten.com hates us, and hates conservatives. Whoever it is over there likens us to nazis.
When one posts an image from rotten.com on a thread, it may look normal on that user's computer, if the image is in the user's cache. However, for all the other users, the image won't be what the poster intended. The rotten.com server sees that the img request came from Free Republic, and swaps it out with something else. Sometimes it is porn (of the more vile sort, to be honest). Sometimes it is a picture of a rotting corpse with some text calling us gun-freak nazis who love female corpses.
So please do us a favor, and yourself a favor too since others might think that you intended to post whatever graphic ends up being displayed, and avoid rotten.com when posting to Free Republic.
And if you want to still give them your traffic by visiting their site despite the fact that they hate your guts, that is your own business and I really couldn't care less.
Thanks!
Update: While Rotten.com does indeed do this to us, and while rotten.com was the source of the picture that was involved, the site that did the switch this time was foo.ca.
Here is the image they swapped:
Click to see it- warning, it is gross.
Given the name of the URL, I am guessing it was the pic of the lady golfer kissing the trophy she won.
Got a freepmail that has a good tip in it:
"When one posts an image from rotten.com on a thread, it may look normal on that user's computer, if the image is in the user's cache."Thanks to the always helpful Sabertooth for that handy tip!A slick and foolproof way to avoid this problem with any site is to search for images with a different browser than the browser in which one is posting.
I search in Explorer and post in Safari. Nothing from Explorer goes into my Safari cache, so whatever image I preview in Safari will be exactly as the rest of the forum will see it. Works for all browsers and all websites. Also provides protection against the Red X, "hosted by tripod," etc.
I thought of posting this on the thread, but it's already 100 replies, and would probably get lost. Perhaps a re-edit wit this tip might be useful.
One of them even signed up as far back as 6-26-1998.
To: SabertoothThanks for sharing that handy tip with all of us!
139 posted on 01/03/2004 10:24:30 AM MST by Lead Moderator
Sabertooth? What tip did Sabertooth share? and how did you do that?
Quite the contrary, I'm sure. Leftists of any stripe, are by nature, anti-christian. Getting a shot at Christians is a bonus to them. They also support stealing the innocence of children at the earliest age possible, so I'm quite sure that concerns over protecting the youth never crosses their minds. I wouldn't even be surprised if some of them are kids themselves.
Since there appears to be some latency in the rotten webmaster's substitution of his little message to us, why run it on every reply? Run it as a cron job on the threads. You can run it deep in the background (high NICE value) and let it automate its way through its task.
We don't need to see what a bunch of spotty juveniles thinks of us. We can infer that from their status as spotty juveniles.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Sick people frequent it in my humble opinion.
They are ammoral cretins who laugh and get jollies at other peoples' misery. Funny that they could look at carnage from 9.11.2001 and see FR as a bastion of "nazis". Once a dummycrat...
A: "Neither, I'm a mocker."
There are also those who probably sign up a "new" account but leave it dormant anytime an account is banned.
Sign on date is no sign of a FReeper in good standing and the mods appear to be able to see just how long an account has been unused and what those last threads were.
I've seen at least one example of a profile too that had a false date (like 1776) as the signup date so it is possible that field could be hacked at one time.
If you post a thread, there is a comparison against a list of "Do not post" sources. It is even possible to get something removed from that (Aintitcoolnews was blocked for awhile even though some were attempting to cite it only in Chat/General Interest).
The Rotten.com images aren't being posted as their own thread, so no comparison is made. They are being posted as replies within a thread. Since it is very rare that someone would cite a full article (especially from LAtimes/WPost) in the body of a thread as a response, it is not a common problem.
The name rotten.com would appear to make it clear that there will be few "general audience" pictures to be found there anyway. The bigger problem comes when even a plausible image is replaced (manually by the operator of rotten) with something deliberately offensive.
It sounds like Rotten.com's administrator looks through the logs at times to see how his bandwidth is being used. I know that Jim Robinson told me not to use any more pictures from a site (which was itself illegally using copyrighted images of tv characters) because they told him to cease and desist. I did not argue (and it is a small enough site that it doesn't need to be mentioned now).
Another example (not even a "bandwidth" thing) was when an overseas administrator who had a dream fantasy about killing the president saw some hits coming from FR. It was brought up because it matched the death-threat t-shirt slogan being offered online by an American company. I think in the end, the whole thread was deleted so that angry young man would go away (he signed up at least 3 times to promote his site after he learned of FR).
So, moral of the story is that some webpage authors do look up details to see what traffic comes to their site and where it comes from/goes. And what's more, some of them rabidly hate conservatives, capitalists, Christians, and/or Americans.
That old thing? The better version (created by a FReeper the day that picture came out) had the "Yatta" guys all gasping in the background:
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