I agree with Daniel, and I've had this discussion with others starting up new sites focusing on UCC recently. My personal opinion: the only time it's okay to s

I agree with Daniel, and I've had this discussion with others starting up new sites focusing on UCC recently. My personal opinion: the only time it's okay to scrape data is when it's actually "data" - e.g., addresses, events, etc. Scraping conversations or articles - content that people took the time and energy to craft - even though it may be legal, just isn't right. But I've come across this practice with increasing frequency over the past few months... and every site I've come across that engages in this practice or -even worse - uses it as their business model - has been put on my blacklist (e.g., BigResource, etc.). Reasoning? It takes 10 sec. for a page to load. After I've seen 6 pages in a row that have the same exact content, I've wasted over a minute of my life, and want to throttle someone. First impressions are the ones that last, and if the first impression a user gets of your site is one that makes them vow not to use your site again, you'll end up far less successful than if you were to wait and allow your content to grow organically. A better option: look for topics that haven't been covered elsewhere (or at least topics that aren't easily found through google), and ask and answer the questions yourself (maybe even using a different account so it looks 'real') with a mind towards SEO. And I've found this to be such an annoyance that yes, I'm cross posting this response on my blog.