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iconI'm wondering why a few of my posts are quoted on this site, verbatim, without attribution.

See the one's from August 6th, entitled "Second Amendment" and "Cause and Effect?" They look awfully familiar to this and this.



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Have you emailed them to ask why they are doing it? I have heard of this happening some but he did not even edit it any. You ought to see if amy of the others for that day are ripped off.

Posted by: gunner at August 7, 2004 9:30 PM

Also ripped off
http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_countrystore_archive.html#109170170676961886
and
http://washtimes.com/op-ed/20040804-084145-8886r.htm
and
http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/001249.html
Just to name a few. Maybe he has trouble writing his own?

Posted by: gunner at August 7, 2004 9:36 PM

Actually, I'm pretty sure it's a bot or a feed. Both posts of mine include the HTML for my icons. They don't show because hotlinking is turned off on this site, but the code is there. That means it must have been copied from the source code, which implies it's a bot.

I don't really care, although I wish they'd at least give me a writing credit or link. It's more of a courtesy really.

Posted by: Ravenwood at August 7, 2004 9:57 PM

It could be a bot, but another guess is just some kid/uneducated adult who just put up a site and rips off the whole code and puts it into the editor. (I've seen that done before on videogame sites.)

Posted by: Rhett at August 7, 2004 10:43 PM

e-mail them!

Posted by: Da Goddess at August 8, 2004 1:28 AM

You got attribution on the Second Amendment piece. Apparently WAY late.

Posted by: Kevin Baker at August 9, 2004 9:50 PM

He added that after I sent an email. Still, it looks more like an orphaned link than an attribution.

Posted by: Ravenwood at August 9, 2004 9:59 PM

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