Other websites stealing content again.

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http://en.jo1jo.com/vb2/showthread.php?t=1159438

I stumbled across this in a google search, and recognized RealityChuck’s name. I saw a few familiar looking threads, there, when I looked at a thread listing.

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More examples from the same site:

http://en.jo1jo.com/vb2/showthread.php?t=1159129
http://en.jo1jo.com/vb2/showthread.php?t=701106
http://en.jo1jo.com/vb2/showthread.php?t=1158831 - although this one doesn’t have a direct link on it to the original, I just read the original a couple of hours ago, and so recognized it as this one:
Why do some people mock the ones who are suicidal? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board

That should be enough examples to establish it.

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If you click on the top link in the site in the op, it takes you to some sort of arabic site. Very odd, and pointless as well.

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Red in WOT - probably best to avoid that link.

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I wouldn’t click on any of those links.

Unfortunately unscrupulous operators gank content from legitimate websites all the time. Can’t fault them for their taste. :slight_smile:

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What’s WOT?

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Pretty sure he’s talking about mywot, which is a site that helps you keep track of sites that are safe or not safe based on user votes.

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Web Of Trust, it’s an add-on for firefox, marks each web page in search or that you go to with a green or red dot based on user’s reports of malware from that site etc.

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I you are going to steal, steal from the best.

I guess we should feel honored in some odd manner.

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And they’ve got a newer version of vBulletin than we have, bastards.

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I clicked the first link, then looked at the person who posted it. I found this…
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 101,310

101,000 posts in 15 months? That gives new meaning to get a life.

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I went to the root URL of the site, and it’s some appallingly constructed Arabic site that looks like it’s aiming to be the portal for Jordan.

Some poor intern has probably been charged with creating an English-language messageboard and has been panicking for 15 months going “look boss, lots of content - see here, a fascinating thread: ‘RealityChuck, you’re an ignorant twat’.”