Author Topic: Someone is changing my avatar... (Read 8511 times)

honda_insightful · « **on:** October 18, 2003, 04:16:58 AM »

Someone (a moderator I assume) keeps changing my avatar to "Honda steals bandwidth from other people". WHY? My current avatar is only 64x59x1 kilobyte... it's perfectly legal.

PIAC · « **Reply #1 on:** October 18, 2003, 05:04:56 AM »

well aparently your other avatar was hosted on a site that wasn't owned by you, hence bandwith theft, it's all in the rules.

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #2 on:** October 18, 2003, 06:35:50 AM »

That happened to me. Open an angelfire/geocities/digikitten account and upload your avatars there. There are people like Bertok and SUPER that also host avatars for people.

PIAC · « **Reply #3 on:** October 18, 2003, 06:44:20 AM »

and me damn it

and speaking of which, use this as your avatar, gir looks... deformed there http://www.jaran.de/piac/knowsnothing.jpg

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #4 on:** October 18, 2003, 06:54:51 AM »

Sorry 'bout that. I also host avatars, but I don't know how long angelfire will keep me before banning me again.

Ummm....if you were talking about my current avatar being deformed, well it should, it's an MS Paint creation and I love it. I also have a Zim picture i made.

The GIR picture you provided is nice, but I want SUPER to give one of those surprise ones. Untill then, MY GIR STAYS. Or not, it depends on what I feel like doing.

EDIT: I'll take yours just because I feel like changing my avatar. CHANGE IS GOOD.

Bloodworth · « **Reply #5 on:** October 18, 2003, 12:55:01 PM »

Well, if you had used your real name in your profile it would be easier to tell if the site the avatar is hosted on is your own or not. If it is your site, then you're fine, but if the webspace belongs to someone else, you need to remove it. That's what bandwidth theft is, leeching items hosted on a server that doesn't belong to you.

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #6 on:** October 18, 2003, 06:27:52 PM »

Something that will clue us in immediately to non-bandwidth-leeched images is if you have 'pgc' in the filename, or your username, or something like that.

Infernal Monkey · « **Reply #7 on:** October 18, 2003, 07:24:23 PM »

www.digikitten.com

Go sign up and get yourself a 1MB file hosting doo-wab. NOW NOW NOW, TODAY! I was too lazy for url tags, think of it as a game. MUST, COPY THIS TEXT AND INSERT IT IN CORRECT PLACE!

*GAME FREAKIN' OVER*

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #8 on:** October 18, 2003, 08:57:50 PM »

Heh, I must confess I was leeching a couple months back...before I got my Angelfire site. Noone warned me though...huh

But I've changed my evil ways...honest

honda_insightful · « **Reply #9 on:** October 19, 2003, 04:48:28 AM »

Well, http://www.geocities.com/videonovels IS my website.

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #10 on:** October 19, 2003, 12:00:12 PM »

about digikitten: I can't upload anything! It says only .jpeg, .jpg, .gif, .png can be uploded, but it won't even accept those! Anyone else have this problem?

ThePerm · « **Reply #11 on:** October 19, 2003, 12:27:50 PM »

on macos9? that would be a problem...after 10 they start using extentions just like in windows muwahhahahahahahha

Bloodworth · « **Reply #12 on:** October 23, 2003, 07:55:17 PM »

Oh it is? Well then you'll probably remember that we've already banned you Troy - theaveng. Sorry, we don't unban people because they've been gone for a while.

PIAC · « **Reply #13 on:** October 24, 2003, 04:03:05 AM »

honda_insightful was theaveng? well.. ohwell, i remember why he got banned, good riddence too.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #14 on:** October 24, 2003, 04:07:13 AM »

Some changed my avatar too!

Mario · « **Reply #15 on:** October 24, 2003, 04:07:14 AM »

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about digikitten: I can't upload anything! It says only .jpeg, .jpg, .gif, .png can be uploded, but it won't even accept those! Anyone else have this problem?

Make sure the name in the place you copy it into has jpg not JPG in it. Just rename it from capitals to small letters, thats what i do.

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #16 on:** October 24, 2003, 10:34:49 AM »

I get JPG and jpg, all depending on which computer I use when uploading the image into my angelfire account. I don't know why, but I do use Windows 98 at work and Windows XP at home. does that make the difference? But I don't use digikitten so just look at me like I'm a leper.

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #17 on:** October 24, 2003, 10:53:46 AM »

Well, I changed the file extension, and uploaded succedfully, but when I try to put up an avatar it comes up with a nice, big, healthy looking red X. Hmmm?

I don't think I'm actually at the right webpage when I copy and paste the address. I'm at the "manage upload" page, and I click on the file I want my avatar to be. It's the only way I can figure out how to view my image. Hmmmm?

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #18 on:** October 24, 2003, 01:17:55 PM »

bah....I'll use angelfire again. scratch that whole last post.

Marcus Arillius · « **Reply #19 on:** October 26, 2003, 04:51:32 PM »

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Originally posted by: Bloodworth
Oh it is? Well then you'll probably remember that we've already banned you Troy - theaveng. Sorry, we don't unban people because they've been gone for a while.

wow, someone was actually banned from here! i really have to visit the forums more often.

Marcus Arillius · « **Reply #20 on:** October 26, 2003, 05:00:40 PM »

actually, is it considered stealing bandwith if i were to host an image, if i ever figure out how to get it to work that is, from an online- journal? the on-line journal site is melodramatic.com if that helps.

Bloodworth · « **Reply #21 on:** October 26, 2003, 11:21:45 PM »

It's not the image that constitutes bandwidth theft, it's where it's hosted. So if you were to download and image and host it on your own space, then that would be the end of the story. However if you only link to someone else's server that's storing an image you like, then you're stealing. For instance if you took our logo, downloaded it and put it up at say marcus.com/images/pgcicon.gif that would be fine, but if you simply linked to planetgamecube.com/pgcimage.gif you would be stealing.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #22 on:** October 27, 2003, 04:36:08 AM »

Of course, Copyright Laws still apply.

manunited4eva22 · « **Reply #23 on:** October 28, 2003, 03:44:10 PM »

What in the heck? Every time I put in my avitar address and click update on my profile, it gives me the doing changes message, but then redirects me to my profile and takes off my avitar. Is there some reason for this?

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #24 on:** October 28, 2003, 04:14:30 PM »

Well, when Ms. Pikmin and Berny had profile trouble, a quick switch of their browsers fixed it uo good. But you don't seem to be getting an error message...it's just plain not working. Hostile Creation might have had this problem, you can ask him. I've no clue...

*isn't helpful*

*shrugs shoulders*

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Author Topic: Someone is changing my avatar... (Read 8511 times)