Comments on: Spammers Beware http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/09/spammers-beware/ Destinations, Lifestyles, and Cultures in Asia Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Carrie http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/09/spammers-beware/#comment-2267 Carrie Wed, 14 May 2008 13:24:09 +0000 http://www.myseveralworlds.com/?p=456#comment-2267 Hi Kim, Yep. Super frustrating! What really put me over the edge was seeing our wedding photos up on a site for 'toy' designs. WTF? I admit, I've never even thought about what companies do when they are ripped off. Out of house is bad enough, but when it's inhouse, it seems much worse. I'm glad you guys were able to bring everyone together. The watermarking won't happen for awhile yet. I just don't have the time. And of course, I'll try to keep it casual and understated so that it doesn't draw from the photos. What a compliment though. No one's ever told me they use my photos as wallpaper. Thanks very much for thinking they're good enough! Hi Kim,

Yep. Super frustrating! What really put me over the edge was seeing our wedding photos up on a site for ‘toy’ designs. WTF?

I admit, I’ve never even thought about what companies do when they are ripped off. Out of house is bad enough, but when it’s inhouse, it seems much worse. I’m glad you guys were able to bring everyone together.

The watermarking won’t happen for awhile yet. I just don’t have the time. And of course, I’ll try to keep it casual and understated so that it doesn’t draw from the photos. What a compliment though. No one’s ever told me they use my photos as wallpaper. Thanks very much for thinking they’re good enough!

]]> By: kim http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/09/spammers-beware/#comment-2249 kim Tue, 13 May 2008 07:35:35 +0000 http://www.myseveralworlds.com/?p=456#comment-2249 Hi Carrie, that must have been really frustrating (especially having your faces advertising a product without your knowledge). I'm part of the webmaster team in a multinational, and we have branches in every country. Our European national branches can choose to have their websites designed and hosted by us (the mothership). We have most of them under our wings now, but 2 years ago we discovered that a couple of countries had just ripped the entire design and content of our sites, right down to the statistics cookies (so we were even tracking their visitors). They were in the same company as us, but didn't want to pay the IT costs so just had the site copied by an intern. I must admit they did a pretty good job :). Our marketing department negotiated with them and they're hosted by us now (and paying for it). Another problem we face are domain names, if you put a typo in one of our urls (or leave out the dot between 'www' and the domain) you often arrive on sites selling our products - fake or secondhand - or even porn. I sometimes use your pictures as a wallpaper for my desktop, so I hope the watermarks won't be too obtrusive - but I understand why you want to put them there. Hi Carrie, that must have been really frustrating (especially having your faces advertising a product without your knowledge).
I’m part of the webmaster team in a multinational, and we have branches in every country. Our European national branches can choose to have their websites designed and hosted by us (the mothership). We have most of them under our wings now, but 2 years ago we discovered that a couple of countries had just ripped the entire design and content of our sites, right down to the statistics cookies (so we were even tracking their visitors). They were in the same company as us, but didn’t want to pay the IT costs so just had the site copied by an intern. I must admit they did a pretty good job :) . Our marketing department negotiated with them and they’re hosted by us now (and paying for it).
Another problem we face are domain names, if you put a typo in one of our urls (or leave out the dot between ‘www’ and the domain) you often arrive on sites selling our products – fake or secondhand – or even porn.

I sometimes use your pictures as a wallpaper for my desktop, so I hope the watermarks won’t be too obtrusive – but I understand why you want to put them there.

]]> By: Carrie http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/09/spammers-beware/#comment-2238 Carrie Mon, 12 May 2008 15:16:52 +0000 http://www.myseveralworlds.com/?p=456#comment-2238 SJR, I left the double post up because they were slightly different and raised some really great points. Yep. I'm backing up, but I'm still so new at this game, I think I'd freak out of anything happened. I'm lucky to have some mighty blogger friends here who could lend a helping hand if something like this happened, and now it looks like I can add you to that list too! Thanks for the advice and links. ;-) SJR,

I left the double post up because they were slightly different and raised some really great points. Yep. I’m backing up, but I’m still so new at this game, I think I’d freak out of anything happened. I’m lucky to have some mighty blogger friends here who could lend a helping hand if something like this happened, and now it looks like I can add you to that list too!

Thanks for the advice and links. ;-)

]]> By: Carrie http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/09/spammers-beware/#comment-2237 Carrie Mon, 12 May 2008 15:14:31 +0000 http://www.myseveralworlds.com/?p=456#comment-2237 Ola Mark! I can't believe it! I finally got you off my spam list. It's taken ages, and I just want to say thanks for persevering with your comments. I guess everyone is different. I wouldn't have been bothered with one of two posts, since the site in question was after some of my vinyl toy articles, but to rip off someone's entire site is something else, and when I saw MJ's article and our engagement photos up, I just lost it. I'm all for sharing, provided people link back and let me know what's up. I don't think that's too much to ask. Ola Mark! I can’t believe it! I finally got you off my spam list. It’s taken ages, and I just want to say thanks for persevering with your comments.

I guess everyone is different. I wouldn’t have been bothered with one of two posts, since the site in question was after some of my vinyl toy articles, but to rip off someone’s entire site is something else, and when I saw MJ’s article and our engagement photos up, I just lost it. I’m all for sharing, provided people link back and let me know what’s up. I don’t think that’s too much to ask.

]]> By: Carrie http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/09/spammers-beware/#comment-2236 Carrie Mon, 12 May 2008 15:10:57 +0000 http://www.myseveralworlds.com/?p=456#comment-2236 Craig, That's terrible. I'm so sorry to hear it, but I have to say, your new site looks AWESOME! I like it when something good comes out of something bad. Craig,

That’s terrible. I’m so sorry to hear it, but I have to say, your new site looks AWESOME! I like it when something good comes out of something bad.

]]> By: Snorkyjr http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/09/spammers-beware/#comment-2230 Snorkyjr Sun, 11 May 2008 18:01:50 +0000 http://www.myseveralworlds.com/?p=456#comment-2230 Hey Carrie, Sorry for the double post before. I got an error from the server and it told me to try again and so I did. :/ So wait..you really don't know what you'd do if you where to get hacked?...backups baby...you're doing backups ..right? You're using Wordpress CMS ? If so try here http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups#Backing_Up_Your_WordPress_Site If you need help or have question feel free to email me. Oh and check with your host provider too, they may be doing backups for you on their maintenance schedule already or at least provide you with software for you to it.. ttyl ~Sjr Hey Carrie,

Sorry for the double post before. I got an error from the server and it told me to try again and so I did. :/

So wait..you really don’t know what you’d do if you where to get hacked?…backups baby…you’re doing backups ..right?

You’re using WordPress CMS ? If so try here http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups#Backing_Up_Your_WordPress_Site

If you need help or have question feel free to email me. Oh and check with your host provider too, they may be doing backups for you on their maintenance schedule already or at least provide you with software for you to it..

ttyl

~Sjr

]]> By: Mark http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/09/spammers-beware/#comment-2229 Mark Sun, 11 May 2008 16:45:17 +0000 http://www.myseveralworlds.com/?p=456#comment-2229 I've noticed a couple of sites that copy every single post I make in the "investing category" of my blog. Even more obnoxiously, some sites have put pop-up ads on content from my RSS feeds! I've been pretty laid back about it all, though. I guess for people who have never illegally download music, never read copyrighted books on scribd and never watched music videos on youtube it would be different. For me, though, it would probably take someone <i>selling</i> my content to provoke a legal response. I’ve noticed a couple of sites that copy every single post I make in the “investing category” of my blog. Even more obnoxiously, some sites have put pop-up ads on content from my RSS feeds!

I’ve been pretty laid back about it all, though. I guess for people who have never illegally download music, never read copyrighted books on scribd and never watched music videos on youtube it would be different. For me, though, it would probably take someone selling my content to provoke a legal response.

]]> By: cfimages http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/09/spammers-beware/#comment-2227 cfimages Sun, 11 May 2008 13:04:28 +0000 http://www.myseveralworlds.com/?p=456#comment-2227 It seems to be fixed now. The whole site needed to be taken down and done over from scratch, which is why it looks different now. There's still a few tweaks that I should do, and some things that should be added but I'm not sure if I can be bothered - updating the site is not a particularly high priority at the moment because I'm considering having a static gallery site only. It seems to be fixed now. The whole site needed to be taken down and done over from scratch, which is why it looks different now. There’s still a few tweaks that I should do, and some things that should be added but I’m not sure if I can be bothered – updating the site is not a particularly high priority at the moment because I’m considering having a static gallery site only.

]]> By: Carrie http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/09/spammers-beware/#comment-2225 Carrie Sun, 11 May 2008 12:50:40 +0000 http://www.myseveralworlds.com/?p=456#comment-2225 RT, I hope it doesn't happen again either. I don't mind if people want to use a bit of my content, but when I saw our engagement photos on a website for designer toys, I blew a gasket. What is the point of doing something like this? It just doesn't make sense. RT,

I hope it doesn’t happen again either. I don’t mind if people want to use a bit of my content, but when I saw our engagement photos on a website for designer toys, I blew a gasket. What is the point of doing something like this? It just doesn’t make sense.

]]> By: Carrie http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2008/05/09/spammers-beware/#comment-2224 Carrie Sun, 11 May 2008 12:48:09 +0000 http://www.myseveralworlds.com/?p=456#comment-2224 Craig, That's terrible! Were you able to get everything fixed? What steps did you take? I'm terrified this is going to happen to me. I've started looking into how to protect my site, but I really have no idea what I'd do if My Several Worlds was hacked. Craig,

That’s terrible! Were you able to get everything fixed? What steps did you take? I’m terrified this is going to happen to me. I’ve started looking into how to protect my site, but I really have no idea what I’d do if My Several Worlds was hacked.

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