RobinZ comments on Over-encapsulation - Less Wrong

18 Post author: PhilGoetz 25 March 2010 05:58PM

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Comment author: RobinZ 25 March 2010 06:45:52PM 6 points [-]

Proper etiquette is to duplicate the file at reduced size (so as not to steal bandwidth and protect against link rot) and link to the original (so as to provide proper credit) with sufficient information to allow others to find the same source independently (so as to protect against link rot)

Comment author: cupholder 25 March 2010 07:14:06PM *  0 points [-]

Upvoted for rationale ('don't direct link' is a new norm to me, and the reasons behind it weren't immediately obvious to me).

Comment author: RobinZ 25 March 2010 07:18:29PM 0 points [-]

I've seen quite a few pleas from webcartoonists that hotlinking was costing them significant sums - it's one of those things which isn't obvious from the consumer side.

Comment author: cupholder 25 March 2010 07:31:35PM *  2 points [-]

Oh, yes; the no hotlinking - i.e. no inlining with <img> tags - norm I'm familiar with, but the idea of refraining from <a>-type links is new to me.

(Edit: ohhh, you are refering to hotlinking. Sorry. I jumped into this subthread after seeing some of its comments on the Recent Comments page, rather than from reading the full context. I had thought the several of you were refering to <a>-linking rather than <img>-inlining because I hadn't read PhilGoetz's top-level post. Having looked at it now, I see that he did actually inline the images rather than just linking to them. So my comments don't make sense...but I'll leave them up for transparency's sake.)

Comment author: RobinZ 25 March 2010 07:37:53PM 2 points [-]

So my comments don't make sense...but I'll leave them up for transparency's sake.

Thank you!

Comment author: Academian 25 March 2010 06:59:43PM 0 points [-]

Definitely better.