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DionDev · #5 09-07-2010, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Zylantex

How would you feel if someone did this to you?

the internet is currently saturated with every single kind of forum for every single topic you can imagine.

judging by the links in your signature you know this is true - its nearly impossibe to get a brand new forum going. people who visit an empty forum (thats even if they find it) dont stick around any longer than a few seconds.

this scraper would be designed to get new forums going with some threads and members that are scraped from other sites so that when you start a new forum you can already have thousands of posts and a few hundred members to entice people to start posting.

so far no one has answered my question - i am concerned about the legal aspect of this. i am not going to write a script like this unless i know it is legal.

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