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Originally posted by FATPad
You're not being shoplifted from. No one's stealing anything from you. Some stranger is sending you a gallery with a request to link it, and you're linking it not knowing anything about the person.
Close submissions, make people pay to submit, make a preferred submitters list. You have plenty of options.
Every TGP owner in the world deals with this on a daily basis, but they don't commit illegal acts to get revenge.
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I'm starting to repeat myself: this is not a small kid stealing his first candy... this person is repeatidly cheating, hiding behind different servers, names, e-mail addresses, gallery layouts, you name it. I delete at least 50 people a day for adding consoles right after they submitted (if the bot didn't catch 'em) and the bot scans all links listed for cheaters who are simply written, removed and blacklisted like I said on the first post. Does the US bomb every country they have a disagreement with? No, luckily not. They use that as a last resort. If I'd hotlink every cheater I encounter in a day I would linking more cheaters than regular galleries. It's not as simple as you think.
You're right, you don't go hotlinking people that cheat on you, but people that repeatedly do this that obviously put a lot of effort in breaking the rules I set for MY OWN page HE is submitting to need to be tought a lesson...
I'm being hurt by this cheater. Every person leaving my page and not coming back is less impressions on my banners and eventually less clicks. People caught in dialers are people that are not willing to click ads anymore. And I want to do everything to keep people's trust. Not only for my site, but also to ensure the people advertising on my page for making a decent dollar. If I'd let cheaters get away with this I'd put that at stake. So yes, I am lifter here...