Um ive just come accross something, another forum and was wondering if DP for some reason allows content to be grabbed from here and put over on this other forum? i see posts from here that are mainly posted under a particular name, but like thousands. Also the owner appears banned from here and was a well known user here. Or maybe its deliberate, if it is il shut up. If you want me to explain futher just !Ask!
Well, there was a thread recently where Ninno also acknowledged he used content from ehre in one of his forum. Well.. I personally have seen about 3-6 forums using same data. Well.. it is nothing new.
I guess its nothing for me to worry about, the amount is quite large, not just a post here and there, its like loads being automatically loaded somehow. I noticed some very well known names from here signed up over on the forum, it looks bizarre, lol Il leave them to it anyway.
Pipes, is this really directory related? Shawn allows people to scrape his content. Its been asked loads of times. And yeah i saw it too, and !ask! is the owner, you should have said it properly
mikey1090 good point, its just seeing much of the content over there being directory related and its clearly grabbed from here i thought it would get attention quickly. I didn't know the DP owner did that, it just seemed odd that its a banned user using the content. Yes, !ask! he must of asked then
ask is a reputed member of this forum, am sure he must have confermed that copying threads is allowed before doing the copy-paste! and i guess the ban is not because of that reason! Though it's duplicate content, i don't find much use of it! anyways, cheers!
The funny this is !ask! was who was out to get anyone running a scam, duplicate content, the word that begins with Q... etc?
qbc? www.bbgtalk.com - i used to own that forum (before he messed the design ) but i sold it. You can buy some vbulletin mods, one called ico-content. It grabs content from yahoo answers. Its great for kick starting a forum - people actually think they are realy people, not robots. I used it and it helped. It also allowed me to get good google traffic. I guess thats what ask is doing. no scams or anything
Im scared to use the Q word, it is over used as people say. I didn't know that could be done, i wasn't suggesting anything dodgy i wasn't sure at first, but now it makes sense. I found it while looking for the owner of a directory.