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leachers? ;)

By xenu
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snowman
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hey stranger things have happend around here from time to time - like people downloading my stuff...... <br />;) ;) <br /> <br />[jafo] leechers [/jafo]
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xenu
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I mean, could It be possible that this was a computer program / script just downloading every wallpaper? <br />sorry for this odd question :)
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craeonics
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Download scripts are easy. Bogus example: <br /> <br />for($i=1;$i<1000;$i++){ <br />&nbsp; if(grab(&acute;www.skinbase.org/download.php?id=&acute;+$i)){ <br />&nbsp; &nbsp;store($i) <br />&nbsp;} <br />}
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xenu
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true words jim :) <br /> <br />wow, lucky you, snow! its... just... amazing. looks like It&acute;s alive.. <br />can imagine! <br /> <br />omg I&acute;m tired... seeya tomorrow or at least SOONish ;) <br /> <br />/me likes this place very much! <br /> <br />nico.
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snowman
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Xenu - the current layout of my site was made by one of the greatest (<b>imo</b>) layout designers/makers around at the moment - moocker. <br />He uploaded a &acute;preview&acute; of an abandoned layout on VelocityArt.com - and it so happend that I was in search of a new layout for my site, and bingo.... :D :D <br />(was a bitch to slice up btw!!)
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Exactly my friend.... <br />Sometimes we look for a conspiracy when there is actually a very simple reason.... <br />I tend to think that the simple reasons are usually the correct explanation. <br />:) :grin:
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xenu
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Snowy: aha.. cheater scripts interesting! :) well that would be very stupid using it.. I mean - I dont get money for downloads, and I hope you all dont !!!! ;) <br />I&acute;ve seen your website, and i must say, this huge spiderlike thingy... I always wondered how you did that one.. it looks perfect !!!!!! <br /> <br />jim: Hmm, cool. :-) <br />ok, so its not just a program running tests... great, thanx. good to know :) <br />yess, I&acute;m happy as well, Its nice to see the people like my stuff!
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Xenu, I have definitely seen that happen with mine... <br />Obviously, someone liked one of your pics and took the time to look up your gallery and then took <br />the time to download one of everything that you had to offer... <br />I find that to be a HIGH compliment indeed and it makes me very happy to see this happen.. :)
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snowman
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&quot;cheater scripts&quot; is known to excist and have been used on some sites - some people think that if you have high download counts on your works, they get better. <br /> <br />Detecting these &acute;scripts&acute; can be quite hard in some cases, depending on what kind of stats each site is running but they will be caught sooner or later. <br /> <br />I for one hardly ever download/look at walls since I <b>very</b> rarely change my desktop wallpaper - only when I create a new Hoverdesk theme :) <br /> <br />As for downloading stuff I only go for application skins, mainly because I have this lill collection I started some eight or nine years ago - http://skinventory.onlyhere.net - added skin number 35.000 last Sunday :D :D
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xenu
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*splat* whow here is the first comment ;-) <br /> <br />but well... my wally&acute;s are so different(yours are also), I cant imagine someone liking every one!
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doreen
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hehe snow!
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xenu
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aha. :) <br /> <br />but how could someone use that? (looks like java skript?)
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snowman
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/me keeps an eye on Xenus download count..... <br /> <br />;) ;)
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craeonics
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In fact, you don&acute;t even have to actually download anything. You can just repeatedly call the right url and that download count will sky rocket.
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nikuki
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yeah, i&acute;ve seen that happen to me a few times, all of my uploads will get one new download at the same time...but i still don&acute;t my stuff is any good like that...
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xenu
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funny.. but what do I have out of it... :-/ <br />nikuki, thats what I thought as well :-)) &quot;This must be something elese&quot; :] <br /> <br />oh and by the way, gimme some comments on my new wallpaper pleaze... :-)
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Happened to me once or twice... Wallpapers and skins too... But since I&acute;ve not made too many of them, it&acute;s not really strange. <br /> <br />The stranger thing is what people choose to download (and not to download) among my stuff... }:? }:? }:?
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xenu
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Yess... <br /> <br />Its also funny to see which which wallpapers of mine get an award and which dont, If I look how much effort I spent on these... <br /> <br />Once, I really took 2 or 3 DAYS to do one wallpaper, and it was not popular at all :) but I&acute;m sure I&acute;ve learned a LOT out of it, as the next work was pretty popular. <br /> <br />Actually uploading stuff makes me doing more with photoshop in my free time and thats good :))
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