Picspam Classic, part zero

[sigma7]

Here's an idea of how Picspam Classic would work.

Locally-hosted images, no hotlinking. Unfortunately, these are all pics I've dumped from my web-wanderings into one directory with no information as to their origins. Some are from picspam, some from Digg or Boing Boing or my inimitable f-list.

Consensus seems to be forming that the best picspam solution would be a synthesis of these two approaches -- host the images locally to prevent hotlinking, keep the links to the original posts for credit. I can see that, but I'm still adverse to local hosting, if only because then the original poster doesn't know their images are being seen at all, and that's a worse surprise to happen upon than following hotlinking trails, I think. I dunno. Maybe I'm overthinking this.

I just need a few more dramallamas before the noise becomes too much for my attention span to deal with.

Anyhow. How does this work?

All content herein copyright its original holder, whoever that is; we're not claiming anything. If you want your image taken down, comment and it'll be removed from the site and deleted locally tout de suite. Anybody got any better ideas for disclaimerage/boilerplate?

Comments

[cowperthwait.livejournal.com]

Hotlinking vs not hotlinking vs credit-where-it's-due:

Part of the fun of picspam entails clicking through to learn the story behind the image. I trust that "Picspam Classic" ≠ "The Way All Picspam Will Be Handled From Now On", so I'm just grateful that you're going to the effort of putting these things up.

Hey, how do you find your images, anyway? I ended up adding you to my flist after finding one of my own pictures hotlinked here; I was always curious how it made its way here....

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I used to use this page -- or another just like it on TFD's site -- to cobble them together, but I've since found source code and tweaked it for my own site so that it does about the same thing. It parses LJ's latest-images-posted feed, gives something immediately visible, and can be crack-like in its addictive power.

I think what we're gonna have to do is combine the locally-hosted imagery with the links to the original posts. My rationale for hotlinking is that it keeps all the control and ownership with the original poster and I like that -- if I were to download the image (which we do when we visit the page anyway, but let's not split hairs) and then host it remotely, to me, *that* seems more like "stealing" than hotlinking does. It seems I may be a minority in that opinion.

I do agree, though, that the original links have to be maintained. It fosters the spirit of exploration which I find to be one of the more pleasant aspects of picspam. I'm glad you're enjoying it -- it's not much work, really, it's more of a happy challenge. If people enjoy it that's fantastic. When people get infuriated, well, there goes all my enthusiasm for the project.

LJ's latest-images-posted feed

[cowperthwait.livejournal.com]

… even without code to display the images, is already cracklike in its addictive power. There goes my weekend.