Yeah. The goatse.cx-image-in-place-of-offsite-image-use thing is a little tired. But, it'd be hilarious if you swapped, say, :) with :(, :flipbird: with :lovers:, :joint: with :rattat:, etc.

It might be tricky to do it without changing the filenames around. I know how I'd work it via PHP, but not Apache. I guess you could just play with the linked files and then use unmodified ones for what we use here, but that sounds like a lot of work.

That's an awesome idea. They wouldn't know what hit 'em, it would be hilarious!

I'm sure there's a way to get it done in Apache through its URL rewriting feature, which can turn any address into another address.

Oh man, that's almost worth turning the smilies back on and encouraging them to use 'em!

awwwcomeon....do it....
With the IOTD you could have a 'hello, i'm a bandwidth stealing asshole, visit cellar.org where I steal all my cool pictures from", do it by directory so save updating it.

If it's PHP for the smilies, make it random, that would really fuck things up.

Undertoad... you MUST do this thing. It is your destiny.

I have turned the smilies back on for the rest of the world, now it'll take a day of logging to see whether they're still using 'em.

You go, UT, go! Confusion to our enemies! I love it!:D :beer: :thumb: :rattat: :angel:

Like that board that Rich the Chucklehead came from.

That was funny...Jim pointed out that someone had linked directly to an IotD, and the knucklehead that did it tried to justify it by saying that UT had stolen the image to begin with.

Fucking idiot.

Dude.

That mod_rewrite stuff is just this side of being voodoo as far as I'm concerned.

You are, like, s00p3r-3|33t!

Signed,
<VirtualHost> Sissy

Hey, half the battle is knowing what you CAN do. The other half is slogging through the documentation.

It looks like a few days of missing the smilies has caused all the referrers except one to go away.

The one remaining is very odd indeed... can't figure it out... they've included not only smilies, but EVERYTHING on an IOTD page. Go here and click on the "next 5" button... it's on the second page at this point. I don't think they did it in bad faith... they ARE linking to the IOTD page, and anyone who links in is OK, IMO.

They probably got the link from Google for the picture and maybe didn't realize they'd get the whole page. Interesting site.:)