I am an active user on a seperate QandA site, and over the past few days I have been researching one of it's users (possibly registered here as well) who scrapes questions / answers, changes the users names, dates, pictures, but not the text content. And
provides no attributtion to the original Author or the site it was scraped from. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/71820/report-high-google-ranking-se-content-copiers-here/136549#136549 here
is the link to the site I am a part of where I have informed them of the issue. You will also notice a small blurb on the bottom where I point out one of the (presumably) many pieces of content illegaly stolen from your site.
You can also check the names and dates are changed, but that is about it... even the accepted answer is the same. I am not sure if this is the correct avenue to go for posting this information; however I thought you're community should know http://advancesharp.com is
stealing content with no attribution from your forums.
rlemoncom
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Content scraper not attributing authors and changing names but not content.
Jun 21, 2012 02:19 PM|LINK
I am an active user on a seperate QandA site, and over the past few days I have been researching one of it's users (possibly registered here as well) who scrapes questions / answers, changes the users names, dates, pictures, but not the text content. And provides no attributtion to the original Author or the site it was scraped from. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/71820/report-high-google-ranking-se-content-copiers-here/136549#136549 here is the link to the site I am a part of where I have informed them of the issue. You will also notice a small blurb on the bottom where I point out one of the (presumably) many pieces of content illegaly stolen from your site.
His site:
http://advancesharp.com/Questions/16352/how-can-i-group-by-a-datetime-field-only-using-the-date-w
Your site:
http://forums.asp.net/t/1802521.aspx/1?How+can+i+group+by+a+datetime+field+only+using+the+date+without+the+time+
You can also check the names and dates are changed, but that is about it... even the accepted answer is the same. I am not sure if this is the correct avenue to go for posting this information; however I thought you're community should know http://advancesharp.com is stealing content with no attribution from your forums.
tmorton
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Re: Content scraper not attributing authors and changing names but not content.
Jun 21, 2012 08:34 PM|LINK
Thanks for the report! We'll look into this.
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