Comments on: I am finally famous. It’s about freaking time.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:41:04 +0000

What’s the world come to!

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:04:19 +0000

Well congrats on being famous! I should have gotten your autograph on that plane ride we shared! As you can see, I’m always looking for the bright side of the contrast, as Abraham would teach us.

I had something like this happen to me once (that I checked) and wrote to the site and they promptly removed it. It wasn’t about body issues: just some of my positive living types of ideas. Now I don’t bother to check this anymore so who knows how prevalent it may be. I guess I’ve turned it over to the Universe that it will all be ok. I know my ideas are mine and I give credit to others when I use theirs so if that is what I’m focusing on, I’m intending to attract readers with the same values.

By: Corinna

Corinna — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:24:59 +0000

@R – thank you for entering me in a contest. What fun. And yeah, using a program to scrape content from other sites is exactly what they did. And she is totally lying about her site being about weight loss – the only sites they were stealing from were sites like this one and I never talk about weight loss.

By: R

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:08:54 +0000

what sarah means to say is they bought a domain with a good google ranking and let a computer program scrape other sites for related content so they can sell the domain later for more $$. yuck. that’s not what the web is about!

anyway, i entered you in this contest. http://www.plus-sizebra.com/contest maybe winning a gift card will make you smile but you need to go back and put in your domain to get the code. good luck!

By: ChellBellz

ChellBellz — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:50:36 +0000

thats just sick, stealing post about your mom.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:04:21 +0000

Sorry about that! We installed this aggregator and it was supposed to publish only part of your posts and send traffic your way! I have removed everything! None of this was done by an actual person. WPOmatic plugin was installed and it was supposed to publish interesting post about weight loss. Unfortunately, we mis-configured it. Everything is removed. Again, I am sorry about that!

By: freshelle

freshelle — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:45:47 +0000

oh no, i’m sorry to hear that. i dont understand why some people would even do such thing…like, what kind of joy are they getting out of this? i hope this gets sorted out soon.

By: bri

bri — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:01:33 +0000

I went back through their entries and couldnt find anything that was mine but they might have already removed it. Some people are just pathetic, stealing an entry about your mum’s illness (and having the photos as well!) is just an incredibly low act. Thanks for alerting me to this, I will be keeping an eye on them!

By: living400lbs

living400lbs — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:52:39 +0000

I’m seeing that too – also with blogs that try to aggregate all weight-loss or exercise info into one blog (because of course a blog about weighing 400lbs has to be about weight loss).

I’ve also sent “stop it” emails. I do find that setting my RSS to only include a part of my post (with a link to the rest) really helps cut down on that stuff.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:28:52 +0000

Wow! I’m so sorry this happened, Corinna. I’m even madder about the post about your mom.