Forum stealing threads from mine

[Inevitable]

Today I've found out that a smaller porn forum found a way to copy my threads and post them as their own.
I know this for a fact because it has the same title, image urls are the same but the real prove is that the smilies show up as links with my forumurl.

Does anyone have the same experience? if so how do you deal with it and what can I do against it.
I know that we're warez/porn forums and that we shouldn't bitch about it but still isn't there honor among thieves? :happy: lol

Extra info:
The pictures aren't hosted on my site so talking to their host wouldn't solve much, asking themself? I highly doubt it will work
I'm running one Vbulletin 3.6 and my RSS feed is off so they won't be able to use the external.php to get my threads

Inevitable Reviewed by Inevitable on 30th Jan 2009. Forum stealing threads from mine Today I've found out that a smaller porn forum found a way to copy my threads and post them as their own. I know this for a fact because it has the same title, image urls are the same but the real prove is that the smilies show up as links with my forumurl. Does anyone have the same experience? if so how do you deal with it and what can I do against it. I know that we're warez/porn forums and that we shouldn't bitch about it but still isn't there honor among thieves? :happy: lol Extra Rating: 5

[sherwood]

You could disable quoting on your forum so that would stop a leech bot from lecching them

[Seifer]

Well you could do what projectw.org do ..
Prevent hotlinking and redirecting all images to a BIG "Stolen from My Site" image Or you can put "Download Provided by Your Site" before the download links ... so that when they leech, they will still leech your site name, assuming it's a bot

[Inevitable]

Quotes isn't disabled but when quoting the imageslinks are removed so that wouldn't work either.. I have no idea how he gets my posts

@ Seifer
Will that also work when the images aren't stored on my server? and I like your 2nd tip but that would mean that I have to edit many many threads by myself.
But it seems that he only copies threads by a specific imagehost so I could try it to see if it works

Another tip I got was replacing the smilies that he posted from my forum to a tubgirl image elighted:

[Saurav]

Post at the top of each thread or at the bottom "More at {yourlinkhere}"

Then his users will go to your site

[Seifer]

Quotes isn't disabled but when quoting the imageslinks are removed so that wouldn't work either.. I have no idea how he gets my posts

@ Seifer
Will that also work when the images aren't stored on my server? and I like your 2nd tip but that would mean that I have to edit many many threads by myself.
But it seems that he only copies threads by a specific imagehost so I could try it to see if it works

Another tip I got was replacing the smilies that he posted from my forum to a tubgirl image elighted:

Well no, it won't work with images that are not store on your site ..
But in the case where he stole your smilies, instead of a small grinning face, you could put a big finger there

[snowmanrene]

Well I dunno but maybe talk to the owner or sumthin


offtopic: "I hate .info domain names "----me2

[Inevitable]

Maybe we are, if it has something to do with .info domains then it sure does
Too bad it already has a 1 star rating on Katz... I believe that Katz doesnt like it when forums steal from eachother: Smartwarez had once a site downgraded because they copied something

Edit: they even used the same section layout, the RSS feed that I've installed onmy forum has the same name.
Uch... originality isn't that hard

[Seifer]

Or else you can use the ultimate solution ..
Post every link with your site's url .. this removes the envy of people stealing your content .. they do .. but less...

Offtopic: really, .info domain are so cheap

[snowmanrene]

What's the url of the site in question?