[wp-forums] Content Theft on the Forums

[Peter Westwood]

On 24 Oct 2010, at 10:25, Rich Pedley wrote:

> On 24/10/2010 06:57, James Huff wrote:
>> So, this has been bugging me for a while, but what do we do about
>> content theft on the forums?  I mean, ripping the majority of an
>> existing article that you don't own and then posting it as a
>> response?
>> 
>> User t-p seems to enjoy ripping most of my troubleshooting articles
>> posted at weblogtoolscollection.com.  When I rip something, I
>> always cite the source.  As you can see from the examples below, I
>> have exercised my abilities to edit t-p's responses with
>> blockquotes and the source.
>> 
>> Please keep in mind that these are just a sample from this week and
>> none of the following examples were cited.  They were just ripped
>> and posted verbatim.  The blockquotes and source were added later
>> by myself:
>> 
>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-and-admin-totally-lost?replies=5#post-1754458
> [snip]
>> Now, I don't care when we rip each other's forum responses, but
>> ripping from elsewhere without at least a citation is content
>> theft.
>> 
>> I suppose I should just email t-p instead of stalking and editing,
>> but I wanted to run it by you guys/gals first.
>> 
>> Pretend I'm not "one of you," just a member who sees his published
>> copyrighted content being reproduced on the forums without his
>> expressed permission.
> 
> I know this is directed at the moderators, but as I'm another user ...
> 
> Can I suggest you stop editing the posts, and reply in a couple of the threads citing the resource, and ask t-p publicly to cite the resource in future. That is what a.n.other user would do. (or me in this case)


That feels like a better solution.

Cheers
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Peter Westwood
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