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trancer21 for the heads up about this...if you post images or icons to LJ and don't f-lock them..which I don't..you may want to read this..important!
LJ has a feed for the latest images posted publicly here: http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-img.bml
Someone has set up a community with an automatic script to scrape off any image that is posted publically that meets LJ icon requirements and post them to that communityiconscraper (there's also a companion comm for animated icons ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
animgifscraper). The posts in the community hotlink the original source of the images.
However, you can opt out your journal, and prevent images you post publically in your journal from being included in iconscraper and similar scripts that are scraping from the latest-img LJ feature. You can also protect communities you mod. All you have to do is opt out of the latest-img thing.
Make sure you're logged into LJ as your journal. Go to the Admin Console at http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/ and input set latest_optout yes and click on the execute button.
To protect a community, type set for communityname latest_optout yes and click on the execute button. (Although, I'm not sure if you type the word 'for' or leave it out).
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Apparently, the opt-out feature does work seeing as how the mod for iconscraper made a post bitching about the reduction in icons caused by people opting out, heh.
trancer21 for the heads up about this...if you post images or icons to LJ and don't f-lock them..which I don't..you may want to read this..important!LJ has a feed for the latest images posted publicly here: http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-img.bml
Someone has set up a community with an automatic script to scrape off any image that is posted publically that meets LJ icon requirements and post them to that community
iconscraper (there's also a companion comm for animated icons animgifscraper). The posts in the community hotlink the original source of the images.However, you can opt out your journal, and prevent images you post publically in your journal from being included in iconscraper and similar scripts that are scraping from the latest-img LJ feature. You can also protect communities you mod. All you have to do is opt out of the latest-img thing.
Make sure you're logged into LJ as your journal. Go to the Admin Console at http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/ and input set latest_optout yes and click on the execute button.
To protect a community, type set for communityname latest_optout yes and click on the execute button. (Although, I'm not sure if you type the word 'for' or leave it out).
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Apparently, the opt-out feature does work seeing as how the mod for iconscraper made a post bitching about the reduction in icons caused by people opting out, heh.
