Another message board copying SDMB posts

Looks like it’s in China. :rolleyes:

http://forums.bing6.info/forum-42-1.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=doper+site%3Abing6.info
http://www.google.com/search?q=“cecil+adams”+site%3Abing6.info

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, I’ve forwarded this to the mod loop and Ed.

(I’ve always wondered if the Dope was accessible from censured countries and if this was a possible solution to sneak us under the radar. But we have posters from and in China posting, so it would seem that we are open pretty much everywhere.)

Probably less malware on that site.

I joined the board, and took it for a spin. They apparently have nothing against zombie threads, so I posted to the one entitled, “Moderator You’d Most Like to Wed.”

Then I started my own thread: “Convince me that Chinese knock-offs aren’t just as good.”

Not only that, the bot (because that’s what it is, it’s a bot) pulled exceptionally old postings. These are from like 10 years ago.

There’s nothing we can do about it, can’t prevent it. The content is just space filler for them, they don’t even know or care.

Let’s making the skill messenger for ignorance battle since Year of the Water Oxen! (Unlucky time is taking the longer than we minding.)

There’s a lot more.

http://forums.bing6.info/forum-21-1.html
http://forums.bing6.info/forum-22-1.html
http://forums.bing6.info/forum-23-1.html

And so on, up to …

http://forums.bing6.info/forum-44-1.html
http://forums.bing6.info/forum-44-1.html
http://forums.bing6.info/forum-45-1.html

Each forum has 4500 threads. That’s 108,000 threads.

Bizarre. What’s the point of doing this?

I’m guessing Discuz! is another email harvester like Metatus was and RabRoad just wants to look bigger than they really are.

Discuz is a Chinese message board script, similar to vBulletin.

Take it for a test drive and report back.

Let’s not get carried away.