I posted a question on Super User yesterday. Today, when I google the problem I had, I find my question on askquestions.in.
I have never created a user at askquestions. Is there an official connection, or is askquestions.in "stealing" questions from superuser in order to get more hits?
This is the case for other questions as well.
Question on Super User and again at Askquestions.in.
User Contributions to Stack Exchange are licensed under cc-wiki with attribution required so there's nothing wrong in copying, assuming the attribution is given
To be clear, attribution required means:
- Visually indicate that the content is from Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Overflow, Server Fault, or Super User in some way. It doesn’t have to be obnoxious; a discreet text blurb is fine.
- Hyperlink directly to the original question on the source site (e.g., https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12345)
- Show the author names for every question and answer
- Hyperlink each author name directly back to their user profile page on the source site (e.g., https://stackoverflow.com/users/12345/username)
In this case, the site fails to do any of the above & is running violation of the licensing.
In this case, this meta question mentions how to report such scrapers:
Send all reports of SCRAPERs to
[email protected]. Please include:
- the URL of the copied post
- the URL of the original post on SE
- for high-rankers, the search string you used (and the name of the search engine, if not Google)
- any other details you noticed and want to share, because you're awesome
