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Originally Posted by adkmehrman
What? I guess I don't understand. I am also very famililiar with websites and the way that they work, and I honeslt don't fully grasped what I am saying but if somebody wants to take my posts and post them on another site I do not really see how that hurts me in anyway.
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Many lists have disclaimers that anything posted there is copyrighted to the list and the original writer. That why it is very important to get permission before crossposting from list to list. Websites also can be copyrighted and any information or photos on them belong to the site owner. To lift them and use them somewhere else can bring down legal ramifications. So that is one aspect of it.
Adkmehrman, let's run this scenario by you. Say, hypothetically of course, someone on the forum has a dislike for you and so they take your posts and copy them over to another list/forum where everyone makes fun of what you've written?
What I think MGM has discovered is that there are individuals (or an individual) who are making up identities and profiles in order to join Go Corgi. They are taking posts from other forums/lists and posting them here as their own words. The motivation? In some cases it may be nothing more than attention getting. There may be a financial motive - the more members the more posts there are, the better advertising rates or other benefits? I don't know about that, but from what MGM says that might be an explanation.
I guess the bottom line is it is a matter of honesty, ethics, standards and integrity.
Debbie