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Talk Back: Sploggers and Scrapers and Thieves - Oh My!

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Just came across this post on The Blog Herald (”The Evil Linking of Sploggers and Scrapers Messing With Your Content”) and thought - what a fabulous foundation for a  BNW “talk back“!

I’ve been scraped before - and yes, it does hurt, a lot. I don’t think it’s a compliment, either. In one case, I sent a nicely (but firmly) worded email to the site owner, and while I didn’t get a response, the offending material was removed.

I also posted something on another one of my blogs, The Inspired Solo, a link to another post from TBH about a tool to detect plagiarism - that might of some interest to readers here.

So what I want to know about from you guys:

  1. Have you ever been the victim of a splogger/scraper?
  2. What did you do about the splogger/scraper, if anything?
  3. Why is “splogger” so hard to type correctly? I keep wanting to put an extra “o” in there. “Spologger.” See?
  4. Are they the tool of the devil, a compliment to your creativity, a minor annoyance, or what, exactly?

Talk back to me!

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Posted in Talk Back! on July 3rd, 2007

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One Response to “Talk Back: Sploggers and Scrapers and Thieves - Oh My!”

  1. Deceth Says:
    July 4th, 2007 at 2:04 pm

    I noticed you were throwing in your extra o in the wrong place!

    SPLOOGERS are the tool of the devil! I don’t care if someone steals my work if they throw in my name or link, but if they take it as their own they definitely deserve a stern email.

    If the material isnt removed, i’d definitely look up the whois info and contact the persons hosting company in order to make a very nasty complaint.

    Also, sorry about the o comment. You can put it wherever you want :(

    splogeros!


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