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Posting Delay Due To Plagarism - My Apologies

Permalink 01:23:17 pm, by blog_angel Email , 176 words
Categories: Blog Promotion

I will not be posting today and possibly tomorrow as I find it necessary to deal with the theft of my Entrecard Droplist. I will be spending the next couple of days moving the list to a static HTML page and will be implementing measures to prevent further theft of the list. I have been working on and maintaining this list since December 2008 and have done so as a labor of love. It has taken countless hours of my time and I don't ask for payment of any kind. Instead of encoding it in Java script and displaying it as buttons, that render the list inaccessible to search engines, I have kept it as a searchable list in order to provide the sites on the list valuable backlinks that may help their search engine standings. After I have moved and safeguarded the list I will resume the next post in the series on personalizing your blog. Thank you for your understanding. Please know that I appreciate your readership and ongoing support.



Sincerely,
Blog Angel a.k.a. Joella

10 comments

Comment from: Man Over Board [Visitor] · http://man-over-board.com/
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I am sorry to see this post. For someone to blatantly do something like this and actually brag about it, makes you wonder what type of person and blog this person has. Unfortunately I uncovered his plagiarism through my stats at MOB. I would be happy if you need any help, maybe a guest post in your absent, if that would be OK with you.

I thank you for your hard work that goes into this list and think I speak for everyone who uses it, what a wonderful tool it is for all of us to use.


01/22/10 @ 19:16
Comment from: blog_angel [Member] Email
@Man Over Board,

Glenn, you are a Dear. I would be thrilled if you would write a post here on BWW, to hold everybody over til I am through dealing with this mess.

Without your vigilance I would probably never have known what had transpired. Saying thank you just isn't enough. You are a kind person with great integrity and I am lucky to have met and been befriended by you.
:yes:
01/22/10 @ 20:19
Comment from: Marg Elmendorf [Visitor] · http://www.margsanimals.com/blogs
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I am so sorry this has happened to you. Glad there is a way you can protect your list so no one else can copy it. It just ashame there are so many awful people here on the internet.
01/23/10 @ 06:18
Comment from: blog_angel [Member] Email
@Marg,

It's a sad statement on human nature, that when confronted this person did not deny what he had done, but justified it by saying he had made changes to the list and therefore it was now something new and unique. He made only a very few changes. He did not apologize or offer to take down the list. Now I have a lot of rushed work I must complete to update, move and protect the list from further threats.
:(


01/23/10 @ 07:34
Comment from: Trisha [Visitor] · http://ashrt.blogspot.com/
Wow that so sucks, is there any way you can do anything about it, as from memory it has to have 35% new stuff to not be yours anymore.

what a scumbag that person is, dont worry he will get what is coming to him and some ways
01/23/10 @ 08:51
Comment from: blog_angel [Member] Email
@Trisha,

I'm not going to spend the time going after this guy. He's a worm and he can't even see it. As you say, karma will even things out in the end.

I just want to get everything back on track and get back to what I love. Blogging.

Thanks for showing your concern, I really appreciate it.

01/23/10 @ 08:56
How they managed to stole it? Hope you solve this problem soon Joella
01/23/10 @ 14:34
Comment from: blog_angel [Member] Email
@VanillaSeven,

Sadly it is very easy to steal content off of almost any site on the internet. You just open up the source code from the view menu, find the section you want, highlight it, copy it and paste it into your own file. It's not nice to do that. Being able to view source code is really there for designers, so they can take a peek and see how something was done. But too many people are very dishonest and abuse the ease with which they can take whatever they want.

I'll get it taken care of, just means a lot more work for me. If this guy appreciated the time it took to put that list together and the time that goes into maintaining it maybe he would have thought twice. Obviously, doing the work himself never even occurred to him.

Thanks so much for your ongoing support, I really appreciate it.

01/23/10 @ 14:52
Comment from: Trisha [Visitor] · http://ashrt.blogspot.com/
Im not exactly sure if this is the same as your list, but someone else is doing a list as well on this site http://www.sabraduffiney.net/sabras-blog/
01/24/10 @ 04:20
It's awful to have something stolen by someone who thinks it's funny. I've had something similar happen to me with pages I've spend hundreds of hours researching. :(

In my case I managed to get the stolen content taken down by contacting the thief's webhost. It might be worth a try.
01/24/10 @ 18:05

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