[wp-hackers] Advantage (or not) of hosting badges

[Computer Guru]

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I agree with Gali.

I've got a couple of badges on my site, and I ask (nicely) that people
hotlink them instead of copying them - just so I can make minor changes and
have everyone using the same badge. I don't even monitor the usage numbers
because they really are meaningless. It's an impression. If this person
sticks it in their signature on a forum they frequent, it'll get billions of
hits; most of which are absoloutely pointless since another million people
are doing the same thing.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Gali
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 9:49 AM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Advantage (or not) of hosting badges
> 
> Stats, simple control of who is displaying the badge, and control over
> the picture if necessary
> 
> 2007/7/1, Marci O'Daffer <marci at odaffer.net>:
> > This isn't a WP issue, just a general question to which I haven't
> been able
> > to find an answer.
> >
> > I have a site that wants to have some level of privacy protection in
> terms
> > of who they give permission to use their badges, so it seems  like
> putting
> > them out in the open is a bad idea. They could be on a private
> page....there
> > are lots of options I realize....but I keep wondering about how I
> sometimes
> > see "you MUST use my HTML to link to this badge" -- and I haven't
> been able
> > to figure out if they are doing some kind of tracking -- which would
> be a
> > nice feature for this site. Can anyone tell me the advantage of
> hosting
> > images and insisting people link to them? In the past that was always
> a
> > no-no because of bandwidth usage.
> >
> > Any insights would be appreciated!
> >
> > Marci :)
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