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User seems to have moved from user #3525 to #837. http://www.toolblast.com/community/member.php?u=837 URL to post still work http://www.toolblast.com/community/showthread.php?t=2394
WTF?!? He's not changing a thing about your posts! Even the name of the post is exactly the same...it's like he's mirroring your blog to that forum!?! weird...
http://www.toolblast.com/community/showthread.php?t=110 Gives a pretty good argument as to the "Why?" question. You get rewarded with Hosting Coupons based on your posting. You do post quite a bit and at least daily, so I suppose they were using what they could to get what they could. It's sad that it's a complete rip-off but I'd feel a little flattered personally. I'd rather be the one with the hosting coupon though, since they didn't do a damn thing to earn it other than copy/paste your material. How weak.
I noticed that Bill had a post here on a blog that he found that happens to have the exact same content...
Bill, I would contact the people at toolblast and let them know what's going on. http://www.toolblast.com/contact.php
I tend to agree with skicow, but here's the kicker: I think that toolblast.com wants traffic, or they wouldn't have this policy. By discussing them here, we've now acknowledged and raised awareness of their service (for bad or good purposes). This reinforces their behavior and validates the economic value of "coupons" and traffic. ToastedRoasted just found an easy shortcut in some form. If "to raise awareness of toolblast.com" was the goal, that has now been accomplished. On the other hand, one cannot manage to stay in business with this perspective. Read this post by Brian Tinkler: http://geekswithblogs.net/btinkler/archive/2005/06/11/43000.aspx ---O