Captain Howdy, you sneaky guy you...
 

I always thought there was something unusual about your posts, and I just figured it out. Can anyone guess what I'm talking about?

I do have the tendency to post with my pants down . . . could you tell that?

Keep your hands off my frog. >.<

Moderator ?

:1orglaugh :thumbsup

Don't we all? ;)

Nope!

But I'll give you a hint. Examine his sig... smart!!!

What, hilltopads and CH are one and the same?

That's is what I'm all about :pimp . . .

is he cookie stuffing ?

he has another fake nick ?

he has another real nick ?

is it TRAP ?

is he admin/mod ?

No nothing like that.......

Ok so here's what's going on.

Cap' posts alot on GFY like I do. Sometimes I type really fast, have several windows open, and I click around alot. One thing I noticed is that I seemed to click through to the Hilltop ads website ALOT, and by accident.

But this didn't make sense. I know what I click on... why do I keep ending up on that page?

So today I did a little digging and found the reason. Checkout this screenshot carefully:

http://www.2much.net/gfy/sneak.png

If you place your mouse pointer near my ad and then look at the bottom of the Google Chrome browser, nothing appears. You only see the URL when you hover over the banner.

But now check the bottom screenshot. My mouse is far away from his banner and yet, the destination URL is appearing in the bottom of Google Chrome. So what gives?

I thought I would look at the source code of this page but when I right-clicked near his ad, "View Source" did not appear. When I right-clicked near my ad, "View Source" appeared.

http://www.2much.net/gfy/sneaky2.png

Intradesting!

Anyway, doing a view-source from another part of this page shows that you have a DIV surrounding your image that somehow makes the banner clickspace larger than the banner itself.

Evil!

While I'm sure its generating a few more clicks to your site, I'd suggest that those clicks are unwanted or at least blind.

Nice trick though!

Is it because Captain Howdy is in fact NOT a "Captain" but rather a Lieutenant?

That scoundrel!! I salute him tho because he still outranks me. I am but a dirty little Private. :D

looks like that div is full width.

now check mine. i also did align center and now it works same./
good find.

THIS is how he got promoted from Lieutenant to Captain! :thumbsup

(If he can figure out a way to re-direct ANY click on ANY GFY page he makes Major.)

Now make a period ( . ) and put it at the start. Line Break / Line Break / SIG TEXT / Line Break / Line Break / Final Period.

Make the periods the same colour as the background and line it all up centrally again.

This will give you the same area, with which to 'catch a click' as you would have if you had put five lines of text, full length, one on top the other, all the way across the entire signature area.

Tricky :thumbsup

conspiracy

Old Skool Wisdom! :thumbsup

oh the humanity?

You've made it sound bad :1orglaugh . . .

Thanks, now everyone's going to do this.. :upsidedow

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