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Here is what agreement says: "Пользователь осознаёт и соглашается с тем, что размещённая им информация может быть использована поисковыми или другими автоматиз

Here is what agreement says: "Пользователь осознаёт и соглашается с тем, что размещённая им информация может быть использована поисковыми или другими автоматизированными сервисами и иными способами." Here is the translation: "User acknowledges and agrees that the uploading of such information can be used by search engines or other automated services, and in other ways." But anyway, we will get in touch with authors. We'll try to find that out. DanG: let me know if you guys have any other concerns. Do you want us to specify the link to author's habrahabr profile in addition ?

sbahra 12y ago
I still don't see credits going to the original author and / or website for most of your article beyond a very easy to miss [original source] at the bottom. Many articles have no references to the original author at all. It should be very clear at the top of the article that your work is a translation from the original author. The original author's website should have a very prominent link, at the top. It really surprises me that you are knit-picking at site agreements, where is the hacker integrity?
dang 12y ago
I think that when you're publishing translations then, at a minimum, you should make clear at the top of the page that it is a translation, provide a link to the original, and include the author's name or username. You should also make a good faith effort to seek permission from the author. If the article you're translating was itself translated from an original source, then "author" here means author of the original material. The latter would seem like an obscure edge case, except that some of the translations you published actually were that. We want solid content on HN, so I'd like to find a way to have these posts not be a problem. No doubt the community will scrutinize future posts, so we may have this discussion again, but for now we won't ban the site if you do the above. Original articles, of course, are more than fine. One problem with grey-area tactics is that they make your whole site look shady. Readers will think that all your articles must be hijacks, whether they are or not. To pick one example that was posted to HN, who wrote http://kukuruku.co/hub/mobiledev/mobile-typography http://kukuruku.co/hub/mobiledev/mobile-typography? It's not clear whether this content was created for your site or stolen from elsewhere; besides which, readers want to know the names of the authors they're reading. If you attribute everything clearly and prominently, this should go a long way toward clearing things up. Hasty Edit: Googling reveals that you copied the mobile typography content from http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/mobile/9780133888249/chapter-7dot-typography/ch07lev1sec1_html http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/mobile/9780.... That's disgusting, and certainly explains why you omitted any attribution. If you keep doing it, we'll ban your site, despite our fondness for translations of obscure but solid Russian technical articles. It's in your interest to pay attention here. You have first-rate, highly technical HN users like nkurz, acqq, and jacquesm—plus a site moderator—bending over backwards to help you. If the material on your site were merely the usual blogspam, none of us would care. We're putting time into helping you because we want access to the solid material. There's clearly demand for top-notch Russian articles in English translation. On the other hand, none of us has patience for yet another shitty hijack outfit on the internet. You can't be both; not here, anyway. Please turn this into a positive by listening to the community feedback and cleaning up your act.
- skazka16 12y ago
  Ok, thank you, Dang. We'll take care.

sbahra 12y ago

I still don't see credits going to the original author and / or website for most of your article beyond a very easy to miss [original source] at the bottom. Many articles have no references to the original author at all. It should be very clear at the top of the article that your work is a translation from the original author. The original author's website should have a very prominent link, at the top. It really surprises me that you are knit-picking at site agreements, where is the hacker integrity?

dang 12y ago

I think that when you're publishing translations then, at a minimum, you should make clear at the top of the page that it is a translation, provide a link to the original, and include the author's name or username. You should also make a good faith effort to seek permission from the author. If the article you're translating was itself translated from an original source, then "author" here means author of the original material. The latter would seem like an obscure edge case, except that some of the translations you published actually were that. We want solid content on HN, so I'd like to find a way to have these posts not be a problem. No doubt the community will scrutinize future posts, so we may have this discussion again, but for now we won't ban the site if you do the above. Original articles, of course, are more than fine. One problem with grey-area tactics is that they make your whole site look shady. Readers will think that all your articles must be hijacks, whether they are or not. To pick one example that was posted to HN, who wrote http://kukuruku.co/hub/mobiledev/mobile-typography http://kukuruku.co/hub/mobiledev/mobile-typography? It's not clear whether this content was created for your site or stolen from elsewhere; besides which, readers want to know the names of the authors they're reading. If you attribute everything clearly and prominently, this should go a long way toward clearing things up. Hasty Edit: Googling reveals that you copied the mobile typography content from http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/mobile/9780133888249/chapter-7dot-typography/ch07lev1sec1_html http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/mobile/9780.... That's disgusting, and certainly explains why you omitted any attribution. If you keep doing it, we'll ban your site, despite our fondness for translations of obscure but solid Russian technical articles. It's in your interest to pay attention here. You have first-rate, highly technical HN users like nkurz, acqq, and jacquesm—plus a site moderator—bending over backwards to help you. If the material on your site were merely the usual blogspam, none of us would care. We're putting time into helping you because we want access to the solid material. There's clearly demand for top-notch Russian articles in English translation. On the other hand, none of us has patience for yet another shitty hijack outfit on the internet. You can't be both; not here, anyway. Please turn this into a positive by listening to the community feedback and cleaning up your act.

skazka16 12y ago
Ok, thank you, Dang. We'll take care.