The image host called MicroTech (
here) is experiencing hosting problems right now.
The effect of these problems is that if I host image X (call it 1.jpg) people might see Y (2.jpg) - and Y might be porn, even though I linked to X and not Y.
That affected my sig until I took my sig down and rehosted it at Photobucket.
Iplaybass is having that problem too, because his sig is hosted at microtech.
I got an email from the owner of Microtech about 2 weeks ago describing this problem - and apparently it is not fixed.
So, if you see porn in anyone's sig or avatar or posted iamges, right click the image and check the URL - if it is MicroTech then the person who posted it is unaware, and did not actually post porn ... the fault lies in the image host.
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Me neither. Grandaddy D screen-captured my porn/sig problem, but when he sent it to me, his host apparently deleted it. I PMed him asking him to try again, but he's been offline since then.
The bastard.
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i think he said it was a girl with big tits, which is the same thing that was showing up for that other guy, and fanboi sent the picture to me, i'll send it to you
Got it - thanks.
I hope I can get Grandaddy D's, also - and see if it is the same pic. I'll email the guy at MicroTech once I know that and maybe will have enough info for him to track down the problem.
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Like, Syph here, a while back his sig was this.
Erisian Pope rehosted his, and iplaybass removed his sig. But not everyone is going to know/understand the deal with Microhost, so this thread was a good idea I guess
Re : Image hosts giving random porn. I get that it is unintentional, I get that it happens without your "consent", but if I see it I will ban on sight. All of the mods will. If you are banned the forum displays a thing that tells you how to request getting unbanned. For the curious, just email forumadmin@penny-arcade.com and explain your side of the story and Deni or I will get back to you. Deni is really the master at things like this so I let him handle it
I reccomend getting a host that you really trust. I cant imagine any way that you would mix up images, especially to know about the problem and be unable to fix it. It sounds like that host reeks of incompetence.
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I usually only keep my avatars for a few days anyways. If you still want me to get rid of it, just say so
Yes get rid of it.
Impersonating a mod is going to be considered a jailable offense.
dag, yo.
How about instead of being sent to jail you send them to "the antarctic" and make their avatar a harp seal.
eh?
eh?
alright fine. i just want johnny to have a seal avatar.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome.
Henroid, the thing about having mods check the images is thats just one more step to add on of things mods need to do. Personally, I probably would check sources and email the user while they were in account suspension, but I didnt want to force all the mods to do that.
hey
mod admin and deputy avatars are this
I'm still going to touch your avatar.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome.
Because he's sexy.
Really? When bone daddy (the limey bastard!) joke-banned me yesterday, all I saw was "You are banned from this forum" and nothing more. Did I miss something?
Oh, well since you never got around to having me look at that code you wanted me to look at before, maybe I could look at the bantron code. :P
I mean, like, permenately switch :O
We should totally have behind the scenes of the Monkey Den topic
I use photobucket now.