I'm not sure if it's possible / desirable to stop this but I found a lot of posts duplicated on downgator.com eg:
http://www.downgator.com/forum/thre...lood-pressure-monitor-finding-this-transistor

If you look in the software discussion and assistance forum there are a huge number of posts copied from here, presumably by some bot.

 

The guy posting joined the site in June 2010 and has 93,000+ posts.

It seems the whole site is a collection of other sites material.

 

It does look that way. The bot is an entity of the name on DownGator of "Free Man". It may be some cheesy way to pump up their forum stats. The threads Free Man has started are in a software section, but none appear to be concerned with any software issues.

 

The other "members" to the site also have hundreds of posts per day. Many are pirated material

 

Feel free to edit my post so they don't get a free link from here. Maybe it's just an ad scam, trying to get a few dollars from google or whoever.

 

Most of it seems to be the first post only, with a couple of exceptions.

It looks like the kind of site you might eventually infected with a Trojan. Don't think I'll go there again, let alone register.

 

The internet is littered with these kind of sites. It feeds off a shortfall in the Google ranking system, where authentic forum content is given a relatively high wieghting.

 

I think it is few folks who think they can either jumpstart their forum, or cheat AdSense or some other pay-per-impression ad-revenue based system.

 

This looks to be a major failing in Google. I can't see how they can monitor sites very effectively, but there also seems to be no mechanism to report outrageous sites like downgtor.com. The page below is the one displayed when you hit the Contact Us button on Google:

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Not really interested in problems like this from the categories available.

 

There's a link further down this page to report spam sites, but it says that it will be used to help improve their automated tools for detecting spam.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769

 

I think I would click on share success. After all, this guy is pretty successful.

 

I think I would click on share success. After all, this guy is pretty successful.

Im with you Bill.

Why dont we click on share success and see if Google Co. will share some of their funding with us.

We need R&D funding for an important new hobbyist tool that we is/are inventing... You dig?