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[–]Paper_Cut_On_My_Eye 203 points204 points ago

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[–]PocketWocket 50 points51 points ago

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Thanks for posting the source, but honest to God I am sick and tired of redditers posting the direct link to the image. Is it really that hard to post the link to the page the image is on on the site?

[–]gameadd1kt 13 points14 points ago

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problem is they wont get as much karma since imgur is usually easier and you dont have to worry about the site taking it down. I hope that new website the redditor made catches on so people can source there

[–]liescontrolus 7 points8 points ago

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The real problem is this is a repost so they actually can't use the source.

[–]Reingding13 -1 points0 points ago

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add "/?[whatever]" at the end of a link and it will allow you to repost.

[–]CurvySpacetime 1 point2 points ago

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that new website the redditor made catches on so people can source there

... but where??? too many pronouns! not enough information!

[–]gameadd1kt 1 point2 points ago

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[–]FascistDonut 3 points4 points ago

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http://eho.st/ (type this in front of the URL on the page you want to rehost)

Example usage for the URL of the stolen image:

http://eho.st/http://i.imgur.com/jRYZq.jpg

[–]CurvySpacetime 0 points1 point ago

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Thanks! so then it would be

http://eho.st/http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF248-Transmission.jpg

in order to not be stealing?

[–][deleted] -5 points-4 points ago

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Still does not solve the problem, and most comics are watermarked anyway so it is really no different than imgur.

[–]ChipChase 1 point2 points ago

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He is working on a system that diverts the traffic if the image is still up on the original site. It obviously doesn't solve all the problems but it is a step above imgur.

[–]Thggqqx 2 points3 points ago

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Most people do, however the comic is more likely to reach the fp if it's imgur

[–]Raykahn 1 point2 points ago

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Thats bullshit. Plenty of these comics make frontpage by being linked to the correct page.

[–]sullyj3 2 points3 points ago

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Direct links are much less of a pain for me personally, as I'm on my phone.

[–]Jerlko 1 point2 points ago

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the source is ON the comic (read the left side).

Honest to God I am sick and tired of redditors starting debates without doing enough research into the topic at hand.

[–]PocketWocket 0 points1 point ago

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Ya, but the author didn't get the page hits. I'm sick and tired of redditors who think they know two shits about running an online business.

[–]Seventh_Level_Vegan -1 points0 points ago

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the original artist's site URL is right on there, linking to imgur prevents the heavy traffic flow from Reddit from taking down the artist's site and people that are interested in seeing more of the artists work can easily find more.

[–]Kowzorz 16 points17 points ago

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For the most part, that only applies to very little sites. Plus, I'm sure someone would rather have their site go down from so many views than get hardly any 'cause the picture was an imgur link.

[–]douglasr007 1 point2 points ago

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I don't know. People complain when reddit goes down and that's basically because the servers can't handle the many users.

[–]johnlu 0 points1 point ago

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People complain, not reddit

Readers might complain but not the author

[–]Seventh_Level_Vegan 0 points1 point ago

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i rather get a couple thousand hit on my site over the course of a day than several thousand at once causing the site to crash and then none for a couple days. but hey that's just me.

[–]midwest_mex 7 points8 points ago

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you are wrong according to all the comic authors in this thread.

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/jqlpq/ok_look_people_i_know_you_heart_imgur_but/

[–]drhastings 1750 points 11 days ago As a webcomic creator (Dr. McNinja), I make my living from advertising and merchandise. A comic on imgur completely cuts that out.

[–]drewtoothpaste 772 points 11 days ago* Thanks FourteenHatch. I write two comics, Toothpaste For Dinner and Married To The Sea and we need traffic there more than we need anything else. It's not for ad revenue (we don't host ads!) It's just to get new people into the site and hopefully sharing it with their friends.

[–]robdenbleyker 182 points 11 days ago I do Cyanide & Happiness, and I agree with this post.

[–]taoistextremist -5 points-4 points ago

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PBF doesn't run ads.

[–]dblandon 2 points3 points ago

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It's not for ad revenue (we don't host ads!) It's just to get new people into the site and hopefully sharing it with their friends.

From the post you replied to.

[–]taoistextremist -3 points-2 points ago

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Yeah, but the site is already in the picture, so I find it a bit irrelevant.

[–]dblandon 0 points1 point ago

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Sadly, the issue is that there's a huge difference in the amount of effort required to click "previous" on a webcomic site than to manually copy the URL from the comic. A lot more people will do the former than the latter. I'm not defending these people, but it's true.

[–]Boingboingsplat 0 points1 point ago

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I'm annoyed about people bitching about it every time it happens. Next time you witness it, post source and move along.

[–]Raykahn 4 points5 points ago

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Or maybe there is a reason people are getting miffed about it..

http://redd.it/k2e82

http://redd.it/jqlpq

[–]55555 -2 points-1 points ago

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It's called the digg effect. I guess it is the reddit effect now. If something is good enough to get popular on the site, the traffic may bring it down. imgur has proven they can take the heat.

[–]kickpants -2 points-1 points ago

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Yep, downvoted for not linking to the site.

[–]IceBlue -4 points-3 points ago

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Except his link is to the site. Click the link. It doesn't just load the image. It loads the site and queries for the image.

People really need to stop rehosting images. It's basically giving people free entertainment without giving them traffic or credit. Leeching is almost as bad. Just link to the page. It's not hard.

[–]douglasr007 0 points1 point ago

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but some sites can't handle a whole lot of traffic...does no one remember the digg slashdot effect?

How is this leeching anyways? The image has "pbfcomics.com" right on the left side.

[–]IceBlue 0 points1 point ago

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I didn't say it was leeching. I said leeching (which is what the guy was complaining about) is almost as bad as rehosting content you don't own. Yeah there's the slashdot effect but that mainly applies to people's crappy little site. This isn't 2001. It's 2011. Yeah high traffic load can still bring down sites but bandwidth is cheaper than ever. It's ridiculous to act like someone's popular webcomic will go down because someone linked to it.

[–]trofficus -1 points0 points ago

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[–]wilco_beirut_radiohe -1 points0 points ago*

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Can't upvote enough, especially since its for PBF.

[–]cmatute -2 points-1 points ago

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I am now forever scarred by your username.

[–]case-o-nuts 23 points24 points ago

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Don't worry. they left the moon alone soon afterwards, never to return.

[–]SyKoHPaTh 3 points4 points ago

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That rash cleared up pretty quick! Took care of itself, it seems.

[–]Celebelly -2 points-1 points ago

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The cure was simple: Conservatrex XR (Teapartyovir)

[–]yesweclam 12 points13 points ago

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Hey I hate the Tea Party as much as anybody, but you can't really blame conservatives for under-funding NASA. NASA, along with the military, are two of the only programs that conservatives are willing to fund.

[–]Celebelly 29 points30 points ago

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This is reddit, I can blame conservatives for whatever the fuck I want!

[–]DreamcastJunkie 6 points7 points ago

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The Nixon administration is generally blamed for discontinuing the Apollo program over the objections of NASA administrators. This is, however, forty years before any such thing as the "tea party" exists.

[–]cockwaffle 0 points1 point ago

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They're willing to fund NASA only as long as they force NASA to try spending outside its means thus ensuring a slough of cancelled big aerospace projects.

[–]FOOGEE 4 points5 points ago

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Yes, because the Tea Party had everything to do with cancelling the remaining Moon missions back in 1971

[–]Celebelly -5 points-4 points ago

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This is r/funny not politics, take the stick out of your ass. Yeah it was a poor joke, it wasn't literal, I have no idea how the fuck anyone took it as such

[–]FOOGEE -1 points0 points ago

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This is r/funny not politics, take the stick out of your ass.

[–]Celebelly 1 point2 points ago

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take the stick out of your ass.

[–]k_dizzy 3 points4 points ago

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The Earth is a LIAR!

[–]Honey_Cheese 2 points3 points ago

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Did that just blow anyone elses mind, like it is a perfect analogy for an STD.

[–]dadn 10 points11 points ago

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There should be something funnt about this, i can sense it. But i just don't get it.

[–]Pants4All 34 points35 points ago

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(humans are an std)

[–]alcakd 5 points6 points ago

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Oh okay good. That was what I was thinking.

OHOOHH I get it even more now. That's one clever comic.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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Oh, thanks. At first I thought they were talking about the atmosphere :(

[–]Kyleighg 8 points9 points ago

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Some will complain about imgur, saying you've stolen the work, but remember when someone got all the downvotes because their link took too long to load? That's why that guy (forgot who) made imgur. I bet he wasn't thinking about the comics people made themselves, and just the stupid pics circulating the interwebs, but those pics have a source too. You cant make everyone happy. I'm sorry you basically posted during a time of "revolution" on reddit. If you would've posted this a month ago, you wouldn't have gotten wo much shit. Just my opinion.

[–]dfaktz 0 points1 point ago

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The hindsight is strong in this one.

[–]alrij[S] -2 points-1 points ago

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i dont remember, im new to reddit. i was just sharing something i thought was funny on r/funny. its all good

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points ago

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Didn't the moon crash into the earth billions of years ago when it was still in a molten state which also tilt the earth onto it's axis?

[–]TheFlyingBastard 7 points8 points ago

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Almost right. Another celestial body about the size of Mars crashed into the early earth. The moon is the largest chunk of debris that resulted from this collision.

[–]abadgaem 2 points3 points ago

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WINCEST

[–]Tipper213 1 point2 points ago

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Wasn't it thought to be a planet that was in-between Earth and Mars, which could have very well been able to house life?

[–]alrij[S] 61 points62 points ago

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i dont know im only 21

[–][deleted] 27 points28 points ago

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Ok

[–]Im_a_cunt 0 points1 point ago

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Sure did, also the reason earth has magnetic fields and molten core. Intense heat caused the iron migration, this is intense heat cause the iron to migrate to the centre creating molten core (hence magnetic field). End of basic summery from what I can remember from 1st year geology.

[–]Quantumor 0 points1 point ago

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No, actually. Protoplanet Theia collided with Earth and the Moon was created out of the debris left over from that collision.

[–]veritasen -1 points0 points ago

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dear god no.

[–]pophouse 1 point2 points ago

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we humans shall infect every planet mwahahahah!

[–]opprobriously 1 point2 points ago

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This made me think of Joe Rogan likening the human species to mold, with Earth as its host.

[–]IIoWoII 1 point2 points ago

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Earth has cooties.

[–]PuTongHua 1 point2 points ago

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Link to the original plox.

[–]BuckyGoLucky 2 points3 points ago

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I love the Perry Bible Fellowship!!

[–]im_her_father 3 points4 points ago

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What's not contagious? Atmosphere? Gravity?

[–]chejrw 15 points16 points ago

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Humans

[–]Grantselrich 1 point2 points ago

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It's two humans, one holding a flag, I didn't see it at first either.

[–]the_dayman 2 points3 points ago

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Seriously, the same day the explosm creator made the front page to tell people to stop re-hosting other webcomics on imgur?

[–]ThatsALogicalFallacy 0 points1 point ago

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When people start upvoting links to the original source to the front page rather than imgur links, this problem will solve itself. Currently, they don't.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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You fucking jerkoffs keep rehosting these fucking comics I swear to god there is a special place in hell for you.

[–]Kirenon -2 points-1 points ago

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Link to the source instead of imgur.

[–]ThatsALogicalFallacy 0 points1 point ago

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When people start upvoting links to the original source to the front page rather than imgur links, this problem will solve itself. Currently, they don't.

[–]barrows_arctic 0 points1 point ago

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Damn, that is a sweet earth.

[–]ThatsALogicalFallacy 0 points1 point ago

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WRAONG!!

[–]The_J_Is_For_Genius 0 points1 point ago

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TIL that the Perry Bible Fellowship has updated in the last 3 months

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Explain?

[–]markth_wi 0 points1 point ago

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[–]timmy2000 -1 points0 points ago

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The earth and moon don't give a fuck about us because they aren't sentient.

[–]keeferc -1 points0 points ago

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"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."

Agent Smith

[–]spastacus -1 points0 points ago

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[–]keeferc 0 points1 point ago

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Uh, ok. I thought it was at least fairly relevant.

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[–]ThatsALogicalFallacy 0 points1 point ago

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When people start upvoting links to the original source to the front page rather than imgur links, this problem will solve itself. Currently, they don't.

[–]alrij[S] -1 points0 points ago

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honestly im new to this i didnt think i was doing anything wrong and i meant no harm, i apologize to everyone that was semi polite to me as well as the author of the comic.

[–]cancegraf -4 points-3 points ago

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The moon looks bigger than the Earth in the 3rd slide. That bothers me A LOT.

[–]Boingboingsplat 16 points17 points ago

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It's called perspective.

[–]anthle21 2 points3 points ago

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I know, its as if the farther you get away from the Earth, the smaller it appears.

Wait.....

[–]alcakd 1 point2 points ago

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Join the club. I am not raging because it might be a different angle...maybe....

[–]trombre 0 points1 point ago

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i came here to see if that was part of the joke or something. That perspective made the joke go over my head.