# Finding your SDMB posts on other websites. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052 "2018-04-24T17:16:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/1 "2018-04-24T17:16:41Z")
I don’t even remember what rabbit hole I was down that caused me to come across this: > It’s from a thread on the pronunciation of “divisive”: > **[How do YOU believe the word "divisive" is correctly pronounced?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=652603)** > > It drives me nuts when people put non-standard pronunciation to words whose spelling clearly implies a standard pronunciation. For instance, there’s the word “divisive.” It comes up a lot in speeches, and in the news these days. There are two ways I... I am quoted on there saying how I pronounce it with the soft “I” sound rather than the “eye” sound. That sure made me do a double-take. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/2 "2018-04-24T17:40:08Z")
Not quite the same, but I once had a co-worker not believe something I said so he looked it up on the internet. A few minutes later he said “nevermind, you’re right” and read me what he found. I told him to look at the user name of the person that wrote it as I said “you asked me a question, I answered it, you didn’t believe me, but you did believe me on the internet” It was all in good humor and I know that he thought it was just another person saying the same thing, but as soon as he started reading it, I recognized it as something I had typed here. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/3 "2018-04-24T17:53:02Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Not quite the same, but I once had a co-worker not believe something I said so he looked it up on the internet. A few minutes later he said “nevermind, you’re right” and read me what he found. I told him to look at the user name of the person that wrote it as I said “you asked me a question, I answered it, you didn’t believe me, but you did believe me on the internet” > It was all in good humor and I know that he thought it was just another person saying the same thing, but as soon as he started reading it, I recognized it as something I had typed here. That’s awesome and hilarious! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/4 "2018-04-24T18:03:20Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Not quite the same, but I once had a co-worker not believe something I said so he looked it up on the internet. A few minutes later he said “nevermind, you’re right” and read me what he found. I told him to look at the user name of the person that wrote it as I said “you asked me a question, I answered it, you didn’t believe me, but you did believe me on the internet” > It was all in good humor and I know that he thought it was just another person saying the same thing, but as soon as he started reading it, I recognized it as something I had typed here. I had that happen to me on this message board. Somebody cited to me a Wikipedia article that I had written. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/5 "2018-04-24T19:59:33Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I had that happen to me on this message board. Somebody cited to me a Wikipedia article that I had written. SDMB-splaining? ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/6 "2018-04-25T05:46:44Z")
Does anyone else remember another board that was lifting whole threads out of the SDMB, changing use names to chicken related themes if I remember right? They seemed to have been post count padding. Here is the thread about it. [The Cockadoodledoo board.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=295910) ---
**Author:** ![Corry\_El](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@Corry\_El](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corry_El)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/7 "2018-04-25T13:41:14Z")
I once saw a short article in a paper special interest (warships) magazine that was lifted pretty much verbatim from a long post of mine at another forum, no attribution. I guess it doesn’t seem as much to people like plagiarism when they do that. Or maybe it’s just out of date for me to think it is. A lot of internet posts are plagiarized. People often give ‘cite’ links to score points on ‘factual’ info in the debate (though it’s sometimes just ‘so and so has the same opinionated take on the fact as I do’ , who cares?), not really to give attribution to where their ideas came from. It’s kind of ironic that computer tools are allowing (some\*) referees of published material to crack down more easily on plagiarism, but at the same time the internet standard on what’s original is pretty low. \*the magazine in question answered my polite email pointing this out by non-snarkily saying they didn’t really consider internet material to be plagiarizable, and how could they know my post was itself original? They generally didn’t consider it their problem IOW. Which since contributors aren’t paid is fair enough I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/8 "2018-04-25T13:47:22Z")
> [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](#): > > Does anyone else remember another board that was lifting whole threads out of the SDMB, changing use names to chicken related themes if I remember right? They seemed to have been post count padding. > > Here is the thread about it. [The Cockadoodledoo board.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=295910) Similar sites crop up here periodically. Apparently it’s a quick and easy way to set up a message board site and make it look legit - just copy and paste our posts wholesale. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/9 "2018-04-25T14:33:22Z")
I thought perhaps you were finding SDMB content on those sites like [Knowable](https://www.knowable.com/stories/2407262/people-who-have-hooked-up-with-their-friends-parents-reveal-how-it-went-down/) and [Oola](https://www.oola.com/lifestyle/2297321/pizza-place-workers-share-stories-about-their-most-notorious-customer/#page=1) where they have clickbait headlines and stories lifted straight from Reddit. It’s only a matter of time until they find us, too… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/10 "2018-04-25T16:05:45Z")
> [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](#): > > Does anyone else remember another board that was lifting whole threads out of the SDMB, changing use names to chicken related themes if I remember right? They seemed to have been post count padding. > > Here is the thread about it. [The Cockadoodledoo board.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=295910) Yep. And before them there was [Metatus](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=132916). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/11 "2018-04-25T16:27:21Z")
One of my posts was once cited by Randall Munroe, for a “What If” column. And it wasn’t even for anything I have any expertise in. The column was on [the most expensive way to fill a shoebox](https://what-if.xkcd.com/108/). One possible filling is drugs, which led him to look up the density of cocaine. In particular, he looked it up [in a thread here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=298784), where we eventually just handwaved it as about the same density as water. And by “we”, I mean [“me”](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5762075#post5762075). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/12 "2018-04-25T16:56:05Z")
Back in 2001 I made a comment about a celebrity scandal in a usenet alt.fan group. I got an e-mail from an Associated Post reporter wanting to set up a phone interview with me on the subject. I had no inside knowledge or expertise on the subject and was just stating my own personal opinion on why there was little incentive for the accuser to frame the accused, so I thought it was more than a little weird to interview me over that and didn’t bother replying. Days later I’m reading an AP article on the scandal in my local paper and came across myself quoted (by name) from that usenet post. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/13 "2018-04-25T17:57:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > One of my posts was once cited by Randall Munroe, for a “What If” column. And it wasn’t even for anything I have any expertise in. > > The column was on [the most expensive way to fill a shoebox](https://what-if.xkcd.com/108/). One possible filling is drugs, which led him to look up the density of cocaine. In particular, he looked it up [in a thread here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=298784), where we eventually just handwaved it as about the same density as water. And by “we”, I mean [“me”](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5762075#post5762075). I remember that. Munroe actually seems to respect the Dope and Dopers in general; I recall seeing other references to Dope columns or board posts. Me? I’ve never said one thing worth repeating in any context, but I’m content to bask in the reflected glories of my Doper betters. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/14 "2018-04-25T20:33:01Z")
Nope, never happened to me. 😉 [This](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2217/were-ancient-tombs-really-booby-trapped/) seems to be pretty definitive. posted by [logicpunk](https://ask.metafilter.com/79141/Any-realworld-rolling-boulders-and-poison-darts) at 10:07 AM on December 20, 2007 [3 favorites] ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/15 "2018-04-27T15:02:13Z")
This probably doesn’t count, but Daily Kos cited a post of mine once. It was back when Sarah Palin was still relevant. Someone faked a low SAT score sheet in her name and started passing it around. It was asked about on here, I did about 15 minutes of online sleuthing and found the original scoresheet, proving it was a Photoshop. Since Kos had reported on it, they cited my post for debunking the fake. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/16 "2018-04-27T15:50:54Z")
I’ve mentioned this before, but [this image](http://guanolad.com/stuff/moon_orientation.jpg) I made for [a post](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13361897#post13361897) asking about the Southern Hemisphere has been copied and pasted [across the web](https://www.quora.com/Does-the-Moon-look-upside-down-when-you-are-living-in-the-southern-part-of-the-Earth-and-the-opposite-when-in-the-north) in [various places](https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/7azw0x/do_people_in_australia_and_antarctica_see_the/), including [Flat Earth](https://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=4844.0) sites. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/17 "2018-04-27T19:13:39Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I’ve mentioned this before, but [this image](http://guanolad.com/stuff/moon_orientation.jpg) I made for [a post](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13361897#post13361897) asking about the Southern Hemisphere has been copied and pasted [across the web](https://www.quora.com/Does-the-Moon-look-upside-down-when-you-are-living-in-the-southern-part-of-the-Earth-and-the-opposite-when-in-the-north) in [various places](https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/7azw0x/do_people_in_australia_and_antarctica_see_the/), including [Flat Earth](https://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=4844.0) sites. It’s a good graphic… not surprised it was cited somewhere else! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-sdmb-posts-on-other-websites/813052/18 "2018-04-27T23:49:43Z")
I believe my never-dying thread about the alternate ending to Big has been cited a few times in articles about the Mandela effect.