RE: We Can't Hope to Attract a Bunch of New Users by Posting About Hive!

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You know how I found out my content was being stolen? I was learning SEO back then, and was trying to build backlinks to my site by following mentions of my blog online and then interacting with them in order to build my readership.

So I used an online service which checked for mentions of my tech review site, and found some guy in Pakistan (??) had scraped article after article and posted them under his own name.

If I publushed a new blog post at 12 noon, it would show up on his site less than 15 minutes later. His readers were actually complimenting him on "his" well-written posts that were actually mine!

I asked him to stop and he refused. I suggested that instead of stealing my work that he list me as a guest blogger and share ad revenue with me, he also refused.

Since we were both in the struggle, I sought to find a way that we could BOTH benefit, by marrying my English writing skills to feed his audience. If he wasn't going to share the revenue with me, I at least wanted the credit and a backlink to my blog which would have helped people find my website in searches.

But he said no to all of my reasonable suggestions that we help each other...

He wanted to steal my work and have all of the benefit for himself.

Blogger was almost no help, and required me to fill out a long complicated form for each of the HUNDREDS of blog posts of mine that he'd copied. But I found a way to get him and good...

I started weaving in mild criticisms of his government and the military into my blog posts. Whatever software he was using just scraped and copied everything over automatically, and he almost never read the posts.

Since he lived under an authoritarian government, his readers started aking him why he was against the leaders and the army! He got into a lot of trouble and it served him right.

That's what you get for stealing content.

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Hey @evernoticethat!

Hivepakistan, loved what you did with that person. Not all Pakistanis are the same. Here's some Pakistani love in response to the trouble that some bad actor caused you.

Usually, we don't curate comments, but there are exceptions.

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Thanks so much, and you're right of course, there are many good people from Pakistan and some of them live here in my area. That was a long time ago which is why I put question marks next to the country name as I'm reasonably sure he was from there but not 100% without searching through old records and emails from Blogger.

Note: I kept my criticisms MILD, because I didn't want any harm to come to him, I just wanted to get him to stop.

However, I was so despondent, that I left Blogger, and didn't return to blogging again until the arrival of Steemit, and only then after lurking for a year first. Thanks again. :)

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What you have done is justified as it was critical to save your content and more occasionally your name. Blogger and other sites don't give us protection, once my content from Uptrennd was stolen and published on noise.cash (even then uptrennd wasn't sold) but other sites don't restrict them from such wrong acts no plagiarism check or identify theft check. But this all is non-existence on Hive. !LUV

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Thanks. And indeed Blogger was no help at all. The lady deleted the first blog post he'd copied, and then told me that I'd have to fill out that same long, convoluted form for each of the numerous posts of mine that he'd copied.

It would have taken forever, and each request had to be investigated and approved manually, there was no batch process even though they could see the publication date s of my original posts compaired to his copies.

I was relieved that nothing bad happened to that blogger, as I was very careful not to go too far with my posts.

Thank goodness for Steemit/Hive. They really restored my love of blogging. :)

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