Moderators (requests and notices)

If you have a small limited bandwidth hosting package and some big pictures, it doesn't seem such a "ludicrous idea" when some fusker accounts for 90% of your bandwidth. I prefer to serve some tiny .png indicating that the image has been stolen rather than just a simple 'request failed', but hosting costs money and it's up to the people paying the bills how they handle hotlinking.[quote]
The method of blocking is ludicrous (referrer checking), as is the notion that using bandwidth is "stealing".
[quote]How many redirects would you need to manually add to the .htaccess? I can see why automatically changing thread URLs to something like lfgss.com/thread_title would be a PITA, but for the small number of important/popular threads it wouldn't seem like a big imposition to create the necessary redirect.

The .htaccess is already so large (I handle all the old Vanilla ones) that it hurt each request, so I took it out and moved it to the apache2.conf file.

It's non-trivial. There are 4.5 million URLs that work on this site, and I'm not about to start making exceptions to the structure of them.