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Manifest Money Talks ripping content from MSE forum?

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[Deleted User]
[Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
in Site feedback and Forum Help
http://www.manifestmoneytalks.com/

I stumbled on this site just now and was surprised to see posts I'd made on MSE appearing on their forum, as if I've had the discussion there.

They seem to be taking some kind of feed from MSE.com and populating their own forum with conversations from here.
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  • Tixy
    Tixy Posts: 31,455 Forumite
    Thats terrible - ripping off this site and our words :mad::mad::mad:
    And placing them next to adverts for carp.

    Martin - sort them out!
    A smile enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give
    or "It costs nowt to be nice"
  • Former_MSE_Dan
    Former_MSE_Dan Posts: 1,593 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hey folks,

    We're taking a loook at this - can you post a link to where a post they have taken from here to help us out?

    Cheers,

    Dan
    Former MSE team member
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Sure:

    http://www.manifestmoneytalks.com/loans/66589-what-special-instruction-indicator.html

    mimics this:

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1830973&highlight=
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    It looks like they are screen-scraping the content from MSE in some way and using it to populate their own discussion forum for the purpose of SEO - and earning commission on affiliate links.

    My username, for example, is 'AAA Auto Loan' on their site...
  • Former_MSE_Dan
    Former_MSE_Dan Posts: 1,593 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Cool, thanks for that.

    We're investigating and seeing what we can do
    Former MSE team member
  • Numpty_Monkey
    Numpty_Monkey Posts: 14,196 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Bunglejemson:T:T:T:T:A:A:T:T


    MSE Take the Baskets to the cleaners :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
    Taking peoples SOA's and using them for that crap is worse than the DCA's tricks:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
    PROUD TO BE DEALING WITH MY DEBT NERD #869
    Numpty,Not sure why but I'm crying :o . Of all the peeps on this board you're the kindest & most supportive of all & I'm :mad: & :( for you all at the same time . Wish I was there to give you a big :grouphug: & emergency hobnobs
    xx
    DFD 5/1/16
  • Tixy
    Tixy Posts: 31,455 Forumite
    Thanks MSE Dan

    All posts seem to have been made by AAA Auto Loan. But they are clearly our conversations and they have even left in our usernames where there are quotations. I searched for Tixy in their forum search and got lots of matches.
    A smile enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give
    or "It costs nowt to be nice"
  • savemoney
    savemoney Posts: 18,125 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    I seem to recall all posts by any of then belong to MSE so they are obviously breaking copyright and plagiarism
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    But then again, MSE has RSS feeds of much of the discussions here, so not all can be copyright.

    Do you want to know how I discovered this (by the way)?

    I posted a question on MSE and then googled it afterwards, and my own post appeared in Google, just a few minutes after it had been published! I then opened a few of the results in new windows...and recognised my own text!
  • savemoney
    savemoney Posts: 18,125 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    There are a few sites that spider MSE but known take credit as far as I am aware
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