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Interesting theory. What prevents other sites from scraping SO posts? If the answer is "nothing", that suggests it's just a matter of time until it's just as
by tieTYT 12y ago
Interesting theory. What prevents other sites from scraping SO posts? If the answer is "nothing", that suggests it's just a matter of time until it's just as bad. Right?
- timdev2 12y agoI'm not sure, as I didn't dig too deeply. I forget the details, but I knew the post had been reposted, since many of the (poor quality) candidates said things like "I'm inquiring about the position posted at [some-place-other-than-github]"
- matthewcford 12y agoThe answer is nothing, I get plenty of applicants who have come from elsewhere. But SO do make it easy to detect applicants from SO by linking to their profile.
- swasheck 12y agoIn theory the community moderation element forces a user to cite their sources or face the backlash of deletion/downvoting, etc.