Is Answers selling our posts?

Looks like either Ideal family solutions is stealing posts and answers off of Yahoo Answers. Yahoo wouldn't sell our posts, mostly because the content isn't that great and also because of privacy issues.

That website's obviously stealing posts, if its really bothering you report it to Yahoo answers and they might do something about it. Otherwise a polite e-mail to "Ideal family solutions" should do the trick, or at least yield an interesting reply.

i've got observed that too. i don't know if yahoo is intentionally offering any coaching, notwithstanding it does not unavoidably opt for this to take place. Any programmer might desire to write an application to 'scrape' web content, extracting coaching. The cleverer this gadget, the greater precise the scrape. subsequently an internet site approximately widgets might desire to apply this style of application to scrape different widget websites, extracting the coaching in a usable style and reformatting it for their very very own website. It is sensible that Y!A could be a purpose for this; that's a large website with a extreme content cloth point, all interior the comparable format. which ability the scraper has to handle merely this one format, and can truthfully employ key-word searches. on an identical time as this may well be a procedures from criminal, it is likewise annoying to provide up. it may mean leaping on each and every website that does this. that's merely like direct mail - it may probably take some extreme-profile prosecutions and huge effects to deter people from doing it. Even then they're going to probably merely use servers in 'dodgy' countries to get around that. i think of that's something we will merely could get used to. We should not be putting any comfortable coaching on Y!A besides, and make valuable your exhibit screen call would not p.c. out the authentic you.

Followed a link from the forums.

What is going here?

Ive found im a member on sites ive never heard of!

I can't say they are selling it.I do believe I read once we post it on their site free of charge.It becomes their property,if you really want the rights to that in which you post.Just remember you get what you pay for,if you did not pay anything,why should you expect anything.

Woah, pretty scary. Oh well, don't dwell on it, and if you're really concerned, be sure to keep your profile personal-info-free. You'll be good. <3

i just searched my avatar name as well. and im apparently a junior member for a site called "the wedding forum". my post is the exact as the post i made on Answers ages ago. WTF!!

I think someone copied & pasted your answer. Yahoo would lose all credibility if they did that directly.

sounds pretty interesting, i'll check thing up and see if i get anything, if i find something i'll be sure to let you know.

I want $$. Sell my posts, but if I don't get any $$ I'll sue em.

hummmmmm.

Hope they use my posts and learn something out there.