Questions tagged [copycat-sites]
Questions about sites that copy (or scrape) content from SE, or attempt to duplicate portions of the overall design of SE.
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SE posts appearing on non-SE sites [duplicate]
I'm new here. Yesterday I posted a couple of electrical questions in DIY. Later in the day I discovered, by accident when searching for some related material, that my questions also appeared on ...
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Difference between clone and copycat-sites tags?
I've been looking at the clone wiki and copycat-sites wiki but I can't understand if there's a difference between the tags.
Do they need a disambiguation? Do they need a merge?
There's been a previous ...
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Is Array Overflow a Stack Exchange web site?
There's a site called Array Overflow at https://arrayoverflow.com. Is it legit? Its Facebook Page says nothing about the operator of the web site, and at the bottom of the site it just says (C) Array ...
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DuckDuckGo directed me to a rip-off site "stackovernet.com" in first page result [duplicate]
Here is an example the rip-off is apparently monetizing through add (sometime even pr0n).
Is this site already known and under investigation?
Rip-off : https://gis.stackovernet.com/fr/q/9964
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Send a follow-up email when a user reports that some Stack Exchange content is plagiarised by another website
I reported a website (Quora) copying a significant amount of Stack Exchange content via https://meta.stackexchange.com/contact and got the following response from the Stack Overflow support team via ...
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Can one take the entire Q&A base and move it to a new site?
In the light of all recent moderators and experienced users quitting, I was wondering if anyone is allowed to take the entire Q&A set of a site, and move it to a new site, with new rules?
I think ...
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What is Stack Exchange's position on stackanswers.net (Askru) [duplicate]
https://stackanswers.net seems like a shameless copy of Stack Overflow. I could not find any good information about the site and it looks to be everything but legitimate. Is the Stack Exchange ...
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What are my options if a scraper found and published one of my posts that I have since deleted?
I have deleted an old question that I posted on Stack Overflow quite a time back, but it still shows at below location:
https://coredump.pt/questions/44386120/facing-oom-issue-with-twitter-finagle-...
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An outside site seems to have crawled, scraped, and translated Stack Exchange questions; what to do? [duplicate]
I was curious how often I'd used a couple of idiosyncratic terms in my answers, so I googled them together and was surprised to see them on an external site, having survived a translation into Spanish....
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How much of Stack Exchange can be replicated by other sites?
I just found Am I allowed to make a Stack Overflow clone? which answers most of my question below (yes, look & feel (or method of operation) is not copyrightable).
However, I don't know where the ...
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Malicious site using "stackoverflow.com" as subdomain [duplicate]
I am not sure if this is the right place to post this but I am unaware
of any other stack to get such issue into notice.
I came across this site today from google search http://stackoverflow.com....
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Another mass site scraper [duplicate]
I decided to look up my username for kicks, and found this.
They seems to be scraping SO for questions with a security tag. Those questions listed appear to be every "security" related post I've ...
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Question Gets Duplicated on a Different Q&A Site [duplicate]
My question gets cloned or duplicated on a different Q&A Site (not a different SE Site).
Question: No Microphone on CM12.1
Here's the Original Question, while here's the copy.
It copied the exact ...
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Is there anything specific I should do when encountering an SE scraper? [duplicate]
I've seen a lot of scraped and repackaged content in my time, but I just ran across http://readquestion.com which seems to have scraped the entire network of sites and re-posted the entire thing ...
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How does Stack Exchange identifies another website outranking them on Google?
According to the stackexchange scraper policy you shouldn't report sites that:
They follow all the attribution requirements, and don't outrank us on Google
I've been thinking several ways to use SE ...
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