Are rlslog rip-off sites ruining our reputation ?
Hey there everyone. My name is Mr. X of rlslog.net, editor since April 3 of 2007. My experience covers over 400 posts, most of them in the TV section. RLSLOG.net is the original, best and most popular scene news blog, complete with original articles including quality reviews. Being a 100K/day site we couldn’t have done 4,080 posts without the hard work and dedication of our whole team, and the support and loyalty of our commentators and readers.
I have been noticing, especially over the course of this year, the steady increase of sites that losers have the free time to create that simply mirror all of our content under their site name. Since we have an rss-based system, it makes it easier for the children who run their rogue sites to copy off our content under their name. Martin has tried to add a counter-measure to the RSS feed ‘this article has been published at RLSLOG.net - visit our site for full content.‘ but unfortunately losers continue to work-around this measure. This is a pathetic attempt at getting their own share of advertising revenue off of someone else who made the original article.
I would link to these sites in question, but that’s what the admins would want so instead I have created screenshots of the webpages so they won’t get the satisfaction of being linked from us in order to get a better google rank. I could only remember these two, but I remember visiting more I just have forgotten their urls. As well with just rlslog content rip-off sites, I have also noticed spin-off rlslog sites wherein the website authors get together a little team and try to copy our methods. Not only do they not have original reviews, a simple bot script could be doing all the work for them. Lately we have been seeing a rash of site-spamming in the comments themselves. If you want your site linked by rlslog, and if it does not suck there are proper avenues to go through, I suggest that you take this route.
