MSE forum cloned

Reaper

I couldn't work out where to email this. I tried the forum team but as that's probably wrong I will post it here too.

Over in Savings & Investments in a thread discussing HWS Precision somebody found glowing feedback for them on another forum. On closer inspection it turned out the forum is a fake. All the other posts have been cloned from the MSE forum.

The site is at doshtalk .com (space added to avoid boosting it up the Google rankings).

I imagine all the posts here are copyright and you will probably want to try and get it taken down.

Former_MSE_Andrea

Thank you Reaper!

Reaper

Some of the posts are now cloned from other forums, but there are still plenty of MSE ones there. They haven't been very clever with their cut and paste, some of them even refer to "MSE" such as:

doshtalk. com/showthread.php?1952-MSE-Pension-Guide-a-review (remove the space to navigate to it)

pogofish

Reaper wrote: »

I couldn't work out where to email this.

Ahem:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5278968

As a sticky, there is little to excuse your missing it.

Former_MSE_Andrea

Thanks everyone, this came through via email and we're looking into it

Reaper

pogofish wrote: »

Ahem:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5278968

As a sticky, there is little to excuse your missing it.

lol so there is. I sometimes think the best way to hide a post is to make it a sticky because nobody ever looks at them!

Former_MSE_Andrea

That depends on the board.

Stickies work on some but not others. I do agree, some stickies simply don't get looked at as they become part of the natural background.