image tagged as \'reported\'?

[slappingpaint]

hi all,
i was looking over my account, and noticed one of my mini\'s status is \"reported\". Can someone tell me what that means?

 

[Jenova]

Is the image hosted on your own site?

If it doesn\'t show up a couple of times (because of connection problems, etc.) it will be reported and then ..... I dunno... maybe it will implode!

That\'s why it\'s usually better to just host the pics on CMON...

Hrm... not that helpful, I know ....

 

[slappingpaint]

Hi Inga!
yes, the image is hosted on my site, but i never have a problem with my site, since i have bandwidth than i know what to do with. I would\'ve emailed ChernAnn directly about this, but couldn\'t find his email address.

thanks for the reply

 

[Jenova]

Yeah, but what if the hosting is down for like five minuts and CMON wants to display the image.

Bang! Image reported.

I know my site is up 99.9% of the time, but there is always a little downtime....

I also think the image might be reported if it loads slowly.....

Hopefully CA can explain

 

[Jenova]

Ohh, look at this Craig:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/viewthread.php?tid=43

CA explained it here

 

[Jericho]

What I\'ve noticed some times is if I click a link to another part of the site, or go back when I want a second look at the previous mini before the current image is done loading, some times it says \"broken image reported\" on the voting panel.

 

[Chern Ann]

Just to elaborate a bit, if your image is externally hosted and quite large, and the viewer is impatient and doesn\'t wait for it to load, it will also get \"marked\". If the photo is marked enough times, it gets reported.

It\'s done this way because it\'s hard to distinguish between an external host that is not responding, over-loaded or an image that is too huge and has no business on the site (eg 1 meg + picture sizes).