Posted by Coleslaw on August 18, 2011, 4:24 pm
I posted on here about Coastal Gardening Society and my post was lifted
and stuck on gardenalley.com Has anyone else had posts lifted and
plonked elsewhere ? I've complained directly, cos they even used
Coleslaw. I'n afraid as posts are going to be copied and made Googleable
I will quit posting now
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Coleslaw
Posted by 'Mike' on August 18, 2011, 5:27 pm
> I posted on here about Coastal Gardening Society and my post was lifted
> and stuck on gardenalley.com Has anyone else had posts lifted and
> plonked elsewhere ? I've complained directly, cos they even used
> Coleslaw. I'n afraid as posts are going to be copied and made Googleable
> I will quit posting now
> --
> Coleslaw
urglers get their knickers in a twist about postings put on urg being copied
onto gardenbanter.
Mike
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Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.
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Posted by Sacha on August 18, 2011, 5:57 pm
On 2011-08-18 21:24:36 +0100, Coleslaw
>
> I posted on here about Coastal Gardening Society and my post was lifted
> and stuck on gardenalley.com Has anyone else had posts lifted and
> plonked elsewhere ? I've complained directly, cos they even used
> Coleslaw. I'n afraid as posts are going to be copied and made Googleable
> I will quit posting now
Happens all the time. Gardenbanter, through whom you are posting, uses
posts from uk.rec.gardening without permission from any of the people
posting to that group. As urg is a non-commercial group talking about
gardening, some of us dislike posts being taken from there and used on
a commercial group. How you then judge the integrity of a site that
does that is up to you.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Posted by Chris Hogg on August 18, 2011, 11:40 pm
>On 2011-08-18 21:24:36 +0100, Coleslaw
>>
>> I posted on here about Coastal Gardening Society and my post was lifted
>> and stuck on gardenalley.com Has anyone else had posts lifted and
>> plonked elsewhere ? I've complained directly, cos they even used
>> Coleslaw. I'n afraid as posts are going to be copied and made Googleable
>> I will quit posting now
>Happens all the time. Gardenbanter, through whom you are posting, uses
>posts from uk.rec.gardening without permission from any of the people
>posting to that group. As urg is a non-commercial group talking about
>gardening, some of us dislike posts being taken from there and used on
>a commercial group. How you then judge the integrity of a site that
>does that is up to you.
I'm curious about how GB operates. It plagiarises posts from here (in
fact looking at the posts on GB, it would be pretty thin without
them), but also must post here (witness Coleslaw's post above),
presumably to generate more 'copy' by way of the replies. I assume GB
can pick and chose what it lifts from here, so is it likely that she
will see that GB does exactly the same thing as she's complaining
about gardenalley doing? I suspect not.
Incidentally, I see there's a diybanter, which lifts posts from the
uk.d-i-y newsgroup, so we're not alone, and I guess there are yet more
newsgroups that get plagiarised by the 'banter' organisation.
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Chris
Gardening in West Cornwall overlooking the sea.
Mild, but very exposed to salt gales
Posted by Sacha on August 19, 2011, 2:10 am
>
>> On 2011-08-18 21:24:36 +0100, Coleslaw
>>
>>>
>>> I posted on here about Coastal Gardening Society and my post was lifted
>>> and stuck on gardenalley.com Has anyone else had posts lifted and
>>> plonked elsewhere ? I've complained directly, cos they even used
>>> Coleslaw. I'n afraid as posts are going to be copied and made Googleable
>>> I will quit posting now
>>
>> Happens all the time. Gardenbanter, through whom you are posting, uses
>> posts from uk.rec.gardening without permission from any of the people
>> posting to that group. As urg is a non-commercial group talking about
>> gardening, some of us dislike posts being taken from there and used on
>> a commercial group. How you then judge the integrity of a site that
>> does that is up to you.
>
> I'm curious about how GB operates. It plagiarises posts from here (in
> fact looking at the posts on GB, it would be pretty thin without
> them), but also must post here (witness Coleslaw's post above),
> presumably to generate more 'copy' by way of the replies. I assume GB
> can pick and chose what it lifts from here, so is it likely that she
> will see that GB does exactly the same thing as she's complaining
> about gardenalley doing? I suspect not.
>
> Incidentally, I see there's a diybanter, which lifts posts from the
> uk.d-i-y newsgroup, so we're not alone, and I guess there are yet more
> newsgroups that get plagiarised by the 'banter' organisation.
Yes, I suppose it could be called a form of spamming. gb, ga and
others send some posts here in order to elicit replies which will
generate more traffic to its site where it sells various goods.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
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> and stuck on gardenalley.com Has anyone else had posts lifted and
> plonked elsewhere ? I've complained directly, cos they even used
> Coleslaw. I'n afraid as posts are going to be copied and made Googleable
> I will quit posting now
> --
> Coleslaw