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so_out_of_ideas) wrote2006-10-18 08:21 pm
so_out_of_ideas) wrote2006-10-18 08:21 pm
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...argh... you really don't want to get me started...
Okay, I'm just reposting this from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
graculus post on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
danielpix for the benefit of any community maintaners on my flist who haven't seen this...
LJ has a feed for the latest images posted publicly here and now someone has set up a community with an automatic script to scrape off any image that is posted publicly that meets LJ icon requirements and post them to that community (iconscraper). Posts there hotlink the original source of the images.
However, you can opt out your journal, and prevent images you post publicly in your journal from being included iniconscraper and similar scripts that are scraping from the latest-img LJ feature. All you have to do is opt out of the latest-img thing. Make sure you're logged into LJ as your journal. Go to the Admin Console, input the following:
set latest_optout yes
and click on the 'execute' button.
If you are also a community maintainer, you can do the same to protect the members of your communities. To protect a community, go to the admin console link above and type the following:
set for communityname latest_optout yes
and click on the 'execute' button.
If you maintain more than one community, you will need to do this for each community, replacing communityname each time.
aruna7, by the time you see this, I will have opted out for shipper_asylum
Oh...addendum... I don't really care who uses my icons. They're a dime a dozen; I can always make more anyway. So big whoop. I do know other people don't feel that way, but it's my opinion. I would, however, prefer not to have my bandwith wasted by people who have nothing better to do than see if they can. So...
graculus post on danielpix for the benefit of any community maintaners on my flist who haven't seen this... LJ has a feed for the latest images posted publicly here and now someone has set up a community with an automatic script to scrape off any image that is posted publicly that meets LJ icon requirements and post them to that community (
iconscraper). Posts there hotlink the original source of the images.However, you can opt out your journal, and prevent images you post publicly in your journal from being included in
iconscraper and similar scripts that are scraping from the latest-img LJ feature. All you have to do is opt out of the latest-img thing. Make sure you're logged into LJ as your journal. Go to the Admin Console, input the following: set latest_optout yes
and click on the 'execute' button.
If you are also a community maintainer, you can do the same to protect the members of your communities. To protect a community, go to the admin console link above and type the following:
set for communityname latest_optout yes
and click on the 'execute' button.
If you maintain more than one community, you will need to do this for each community, replacing communityname each time.
aruna7, by the time you see this, I will have opted out for shipper_asylumOh...addendum... I don't really care who uses my icons. They're a dime a dozen; I can always make more anyway. So big whoop. I do know other people don't feel that way, but it's my opinion. I would, however, prefer not to have my bandwith wasted by people who have nothing better to do than see if they can. So...