Nice one Roadie

[Sir ffeJ]

I was just over at the OS peeking around and came across this, good one Roadie

I can't believe that haven't taken it down.

 

[Hypnotoad]

That's funny, who made it?

They're slackin. I put up a reference to this site over there and it's been up for over a week now.

 

[mikeinDE]

That is bad-ass!!!

 

[The_Roadie]

That's funny, who made it?

If you look at where the picture is hosted, it's clear I did it. We don't talk about it much in public, because trailvoy asshats lurk here and go home to tattle to the admins.

But basically, if you control where any picture is hosted, but don't control the site that links to it, you can replace the contents of an image with something of your own choosing, using the original name. I did that to some of my popular images, but not all. If trailvoy goes in and edits the original posts to not link to my "new" images, that's a lot of manual work. They are FAR too lazy to do that. And if they change the links to a few of my old images, I have THOUSANDS more, all hosted at roadie.org. One could even write code to check to see the referring site, and change the content if the link is from a place you want to prank, like trailvoy.

I didn't anticipate ever having a falling out with the owners of trailvoy when I started posting in 2004, but hosting your own images is always useful if you want to take your ball and go home.

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

hosting your own images is always useful if you want to take your ball and go home.

Made me chuckle.


Luckily you decided just to bring your ball here and keep helping people out.

 

[Hypnotoad]

If you look at where the picture is hosted, it's clear I did it. We don't talk about it much in public, because trailvoy asshats lurk here and go home to tattle to the admins.

But basically, if you control where any picture is hosted, but don't control the site that links to it, you can replace the contents of an image with something of your own choosing, using the original name. I did that to some of my popular images, but not all. If trailvoy goes in and edits the original posts to not link to my "new" images, that's a lot of manual work. They are FAR too lazy to do that. And if they change the links to a few of my old images, I have THOUSANDS more, all hosted at roadie.org. One could even write code to check to see the referring site, and change the content if the link is from a place you want to prank, like trailvoy.

I didn't anticipate ever having a falling out with the owners of trailvoy when I started posting in 2004, but hosting your own images is always useful if you want to take your ball and go home.

I figured it was one of yours, but wasn't sure how you would have gotten it onto the old site. Pretty clever.

Makes me wonder if I should stop uploading my pictures to gmtnation in case I need to jump ship and give you all the middle finger.:sly:

 

[The_Roadie]

Makes me wonder if I should stop uploading my pictures to gmtnation in case I need to jump ship and give you all the middle finger.:sly:

Oh, no.....you can trust US. Vertical Scope has no competitors who buy up motorsports sites. .... Oh, wait, they do.

Luckily you decided just to bring your ball here and keep helping people out.

Hehe. It's still my ball. But I have this strange Boy Scout compulsion to answer questions. Just put a penny in the slot.....

 

[lynch55]

Roadie, you sly devil!