How much time do you put into your threads? Many ATS users spend a lot of time researching and writing very complex threads that take massive amounts
of energy to put together. No matter the subject or popularity of your thread, how would you feel if it was copied and pasted on another website? That
is exactly what is happening.
This may be an old issue, or common knowledge, but I found something very interesting today. I recently authored a thread on a school fundraising
scam.
Are School Fundrasiers a Scam? I did a google search on the issue to dig up more
information and I saw the title of my thread close to the top of the list. At first I thought that it was just the ATS site link to my thread, but
after I read the URL and clicked on the link, it became clear that the site was not ATS.
The site is
usahitman.com. This is a conspiracy/current events website. If you read through just the first page,
you will realize that this site is full of content pulled from ATS. Here is a small list of ATS threads that have been copied and pasted on this
website by a user named "conspiracyman".
Do you believe it is ever right to break the law? by Death_Kron
Best Enviromental Pictures of 2010 by speculativeoptimist This article was sourced to
National Geographic but the usahitman.com site used an ATS thread as its source.
More Fox News coverage on UFO's! What's up with that? by cash69
Source is Fox News AND an ATS thread.
The Sphinx could be 2.5 million years old based on
age of the Sahara by earth2
Are School Fundraisers a scam? by me...sheepslayer247
I am guilty. Are you? by 5senses
The list could go on and on. The site itself is has pages upon pages of links, many of which link to our ATS threads. Are your threads on this
website?
Is conspiracyman a member of ATS? If so, why does he use our material on this website? I was flattered that my thread made it to another website, but
at the same time I feel that I should have been asked. I know that when I post on ATS it becomes fair game, but common courtesy would be to ask.
Questions and comments directed at your thread can be posted on the usahitman.com website and you have no way of responding or defending your
thread's content if you don't even know it's on another website.
Why are ATS threads being posted along side articles from accredited news organizations?
Maybe I am making a mountain out of a molehill, but I take great pride and ownership in my threads. And my threads are nothing compared to others on
this site. So what do you think ATS? How do you feel on this issue?