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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 914038, member: 39&quot;]In my opinion there is an important difference between hotlinking (which Clinker does not do) and posting a link to a publicly available page. For example, opening and reading this very topic does not automatically load anything from your site. Nor does he in any way convey the impression that the images and the other content are his work. He finds/collects interesting info and presents them in an informative way.</p><p><br /></p><p>To put it a little differently, I would probably not visit a website about Mexican Revolutionary coinage, since my collection is focused on other periods and countries. But I read and enjoy most of his &quot;Trivia&quot; posts (check out how many he has already written), and thus may well have a look at the pieces he presents.</p><p><br /></p><p>You may have excellent reasons for not wanting anybody to post such direct links to your site - but then it would be useful in my opinion to build in some measures which make it obvious that you do not want it. I am not an HTML or scripting expert, but apart from using dynamic links, you could disable context menus for example. This page <a href="http://www.muntslag.eu/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.muntslag.eu/" rel="nofollow">http://www.muntslag.eu/</a> (about Belgian coins) shows quite nicely what I mean.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hmm. On that page you write &quot;Please link only to the main page (<a href="http://www.shieldnickels.net/1883_2/1883_2.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.shieldnickels.net/1883_2/1883_2.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.shieldnickels.net/1883_2/1883_2.html</a>) - not to subsidiary pages.&quot; Fine, but where on that main page, or on your &quot;front page&quot;, would I find a link to your Mexican Rev. coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that deep links can sometimes be annoying. But Clinker simply makes these posts as a hobby, without any commercial interest. You just gotta like them - just as he found your pages to be very interesting. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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