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芳芳 -

"used tampon".....isn't that you? I'm big fan.



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zhwj -

Interesting. The Language forums seem to have been taken down, and the whole thing is now behind a
registration wall.

Yet... http://chinaonline.cn.com/ASK/forums/thread/1282.aspx is quite familiar. I'm not sure how I
feel about having my alter-ego be named cross-eyed boy...










chinesetools -

I've had this happen before with several of my websites. I've done what I can to lock them out but
sometimes they just copy the page, change some colors and repost it.

I think it's hilarious that on their "China Business" forum, one of the topics listed is:
"How to protect IP?". They're not the best people to ask.










roddy -

I gave them a call yesterday afternoon and got a fairly positive response, with a follow-up email
saying

Quote:

After we spoke I contacted our administrator, instructing him to turn off our Ask China language
forums. Our administrator is now going through every post on Ask China (not only the language
forum, but every single entry) to immediately delete suspect posts.

Apparently they were employing freelancers to generate content for the site, and the freelancers
weren't so much generating it as borrowing it.

Very quick and correct response from their head guy once he was made aware of the issue, which to
be honest I wasn't expecting - so credit to them for that.










roddy -

And have also emailed them with a few more copied topics, but I'm damned if I'm going through the
whole thing telling them what to delete. If anyone spots anything though post it in here and I'll
pass it on. I think they thought it was only their language forum that was the problem, but
there's copied stuff all over the place - and that's just what's been copied from here.

Quote:

I've had this happen before with several of my websites. I've done what I can to lock them out but
sometimes they just copy the page, change some colors and repost it.

It can be a real problem. This is the first time anyone's tried to pass forums content off as
their own though. There are a couple of aggregator sites archiving damn near anything I haven't
been able to do anything about, but at least they provide links back.










Quest -

So what was my name?










roddy -

Actually, someone copied and pasted in some of your posts, and then they banned you.










kudra -

For those not up on what the heck is going on here, see
http://tinyurl.com/kdgda
as a WSJ reporter moonlights as an "original content" writer.










liuzhou -

The whole forum seems down now.










roddy -

And now it's up again, with copied content again. They really are taking the piss.

Example One
Example Two

Can anyone spot the deliberate mistake? Guess they thought making the English worse would let them
get away with it. . .












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