Comments on: Plagiarism 2.1

By: soubriquet

soubriquet — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:46:07 +0000

I was interested to read this, not knowing what a splog was, then finding I’d been targeted by them.
Bastards.

so I read further through the links, and found this re-translational gem:
” A Catholic mother in Britain who is unable to care for her boy holds objected to him being positioned in the surrogate attention of a homosexual duet. She holds shown concern the twosome could promote him into a path she makes not concord with, amid studies the boy is already enquire about homoeroticism.”

what?

By: CGHill

CGHill — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:03:37 +0000

After a while, you reach critical mass, or something; if I never posted another item I’d probably still get 200-300 hits a day just from searchers.

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:02:43 +0000

yeah, that story is strange… and though even I make fun of it, it’s true, every single bit of it!

I’m really hoping for more hits off neuro-urology though… it’s not as if the dirty jokes write themselves, they’ve been written for years!

By: CGHill

CGHill — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:32:18 +0000

Two months from now, run a search for "talking cell-phone battery" and see who comes up.

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:23:56 +0000

You know what irritates me? I don’t think my site has ever been ‘scraped’ for and I’m insulted. If original banality isn’t good enough, what is?

By: Charles Pergiel

Charles Pergiel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:06:34 +0000

Illegitimate bloggery! Oh, that’s funny! So sploggery has one beneficial side effect, it gave me a chuckle.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:33:24 +0000

Of course there’s illegitimate bloggery. Every time I see one of their pages, I think, “You bastard.”

By: Cary

Cary — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:47:49 +0000

There’s legitimate and illegitimate bloggery?

Are you kidding?

By: CGHill

CGHill — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:28:51 +0000

My best guess — keep in mind, best guesses and $5.99 will get you a combo meal at participating locations for a limited time only — is that they’re trying to build up a network of what looks like legitimate bloggery, in anticipation of bombarding the rest of us with comment and/or trackback spam.

By: Cary

Cary — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:14:32 +0000

I have people steal stuff from me all the time.

I guess you just get used to it.

By: Lisa Paul

Lisa Paul — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:56:34 +0000

What am I not getting about this? What is the goal of content scraping? Every time I’ve tracked down a site that has scraped my content, they don’t seem to have any ads other than Google Adsense. And we all know how little those pay. So it can’t be for the money.

Or is this the first wave of the machines taking over? Where is Sarah Connor?

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:21:55 +0000

And you know? If a student did that with a website to plagiarize it to a paper they were supposed to hand in, it might be hard to tell. (Stilted syntax and odd word-usages can be par for the course with some)

Well, until the random German or Italian word showed up in their paper and you knew they didn’t speak the language…