ibe98765 Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 When you write a URL directly into a post, if you put any characters around and directly next to a raw URL, the URL link won't be live.Example:http://www.google.com/(http://www.google.com/)Why is this an issue? Because sometimes, if you refer to a site by name and want to provide the real URL as a clickable link, you have to remember to leave one space around the URL. Can this be fixed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arena2045 Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 Technically, just typing a URL and having it automatically converted into a clickable link is a side feature of the board. If following the board's code syntax system, a full link should look like this: [url=http://www.google.com/]http://www.google.com/[/url] Sorry we can't fix it since its part of the board code not an option that can be enabled or disabled.Seriously... it's only two extra spaces, one before and one after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siebkens Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 I ran into a situation just a couple of days ago where I wanted to credit a site that I quoted, but the author didn't want a direct link to his page. I just surrounded it with brackets & Voila! No direct link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibe98765 Posted February 13, 2004 Author Share Posted February 13, 2004 I ran into a situation just a couple of days ago where I wanted to credit a site that I quoted, but the author didn't want a direct link to his page. I just surrounded it with brackets & Voila! No direct link. Why wouldn't anyone want a link to their material? Afraid of the traffic it would generate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siebkens Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Honestly, I wondered that myself. But the author stated at the top of the page that he wanted to be contacted if you were going to directly link to his page. I assume that he wanted some control over the link. I have read that some commercial sites don't want you to link to their page unless it is to their opening or main page because then you'll miss all of their great advertising or other info that they want you to see, but the site that I was looking at was a one-page affair. So, I was just trying to follow the author's wishes! B)Maybe stating that he didn't want a direct link was too harsh, but that was the impression that I got when reading the page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Direct linking can in some cases cause unexpected and potentially unwanted huge demands on bandwidth, at times even preventing normal wanted traffic through because it exceeds the bandwidth for the month or other given time frame. It may be that kinda thing too.Not everyone has a site up there to see how many hits they can get in a day. LOL! Some just want whatever traffic trickles in ... not to get slash dotted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siebkens Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 OK - that's the 2nd time in a couple of days that I've seen the term slash dotted. I must be behind the times! What does it mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zox Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 OK - that's the 2nd time in a couple of days that I've seen the term slash dotted. I must be behind the times! What does it mean?There is a news community driven site called Slashdot (/.)http://slashdot.org/It has huge community and so many people are visiting that every time some news is posted about something, they all try to connect and being so huge community, usually bring intended site to its knees.Server can't handle unexpected load so it stops responding.That effect is called "slashdotted site" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Slashdot EffectThe Slashdot Effect is the sudden, relatively temporary surge in traffic to a Web site that occurs when a high-traffic Web site or other source posts a story that refers visitors to another Web site. The effect gets its name from the Slashdot Web site, which provides content about Linux and related software, and sometimes features news about other related but less-traveled sites. However, the effect can be perceived when any large Web site posts a high-interest, widely-publicized story, about another site. The effect is obviously much more noticeable on smaller sites and the surge in traffic sometimes will slow a site down or make it impossible to reach.Slashdot, the Web site, is named, according to Slashdot originator Jeff "Hemos" Bates, as "a play on how terrible it is to say domain names out loud." In this case: h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-o-r-gBasically, to be slashdotted is to have a link from a story on some other site (often SlashDot) send so much traffic to a given site that it brings the server to its knees ... so to speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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siebkens Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Thanks! I figured it was something like that. The links that Fred Langa provides in his newsletter have that happen from time to time. Langad? Langaed? Fredded? Somehow, it loses something in the translation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zox Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 zox LOL Fran.We are chasing each other to crosspost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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