My forum is practicalmachinist.com and some strange person has created a near copy of mine, complete with same forums and even copy/pasting posts and whole threads from my forum to his ! I would provide you with a link to the copy site but a little reluctant to do so as that would increase his traffic. The basic look is different and he has no advertisers other than a Google ad sense thing, but otherwise everything there is nearly identical...except so far only perhaps 50 threads in the General Forum, where we have 31,000....apparently he is copy/pasting posts manually and only sometimes changing the names of the poster.
FWIW, my forum is eleven years old and this one started apparently just a few weeks ago.
Anyone know of any direct contact with Google about this sort of thing ? Seems like this would fall into "gaming the system" category and Google might black ball them, which would essentially kill it if they did.
11-07-2011, 07:55 PM
Someone has *cloned* my forum ! What to do ?
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