learned something about LJ today
Oct. 20th, 2006 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sepiastarsI just learned, and thought I should pass on to other graphics makers, that there are people picking up the LJ picture feed (didn't know about that either? yeah. me too.) to pirate your graphics for reposting in mass, without credit, for their skeezy friends to take. It also steals your bandwidth. Every single photo that's posted, whether it's an icon batch, or a photo of your and you baby just home from the hospital, goes onto the feed for anyone to tap into. One of the jerks stealing off of the feed is iconscraper (he's probably psyched about all the attention he's been getting, to tell you the truth). The good news is that there's a way to block your journal or community from getting onto the feed.
iconscraper (he's probably psyched about all the attention he's been getting, to tell you the truth). The good news is that there's a way to block your journal or community from getting onto the feed.1. Open up adminconsole. http://www.livejournal.com/admin/consol
2. For personal Journals, copy/paste the following: set latest_optout yes
3. For communities, copy/paste the following: set "for" COMMUNITYNAME latest_optout yes (where it says COMMUNITYNAME, delete that and type in the name of your community)
Some people don't care that people can take their work and not credit, repost anywhere they like etc. There's obviously no way to keep some jerk who wants to take your icons and put them on Xanga or use as a userpic and not credit from doing that. But we can at least keep this guy, and others, from enabling the rest of the jerk population.
PS - Sorry for spamming everyone's F-lists. I crossposted this at every graphics community I'm a member of.
2. For personal Journals, copy/paste the following: set latest_optout yes
3. For communities, copy/paste the following: set "for" COMMUNITYNAME latest_optout yes (where it says COMMUNITYNAME, delete that and type in the name of your community)
Some people don't care that people can take their work and not credit, repost anywhere they like etc. There's obviously no way to keep some jerk who wants to take your icons and put them on Xanga or use as a userpic and not credit from doing that. But we can at least keep this guy, and others, from enabling the rest of the jerk population.
PS - Sorry for spamming everyone's F-lists. I crossposted this at every graphics community I'm a member of.
