As Ray over at Jupiter said in his thread (http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=470021), GFY is under a constant barrage of spiders and other data theives. It has gotten so bad, that we have a full time person to deal with the load issues. It is so bad, that that is the reason that search keeps going down, and that is why it is off right now.
GFY serves the adult community and is the most active industry forum, we would never want to charge for posting, searching, etc. All we ask is that people give as well as receive, that they contribute posts, do business, and have fun. Make no mistake. GFY does not authorize the theft of the content that resides on GFY servers. The board leech sites are unauthorized content theives, it's the same if I were to spider a dating site, and steal all of the info that was posted there. They do not ask permission, and we request that they do not do it.
Why are board leeches bad?
1. They slow the board down, every day.
2. They have crashed the board several times with their bots.
3. They keep people from contributing to the forum they read, if you can read it without visiting, you are less likely to post.
4. It's ILLEGAL content theft.
I am asking nicely for all board leeches to stop republishing GFY. If you won't do it nicely, we can do it not so nice. We have taken legal action on board leeches in the past, and we will in the future. We start with a DCMA notice, it's usually enough to lose your hosting. Then we will escalate it from there.
Some people ask: Why do smaller boards allow it? Because they are SMALLER, and they hope to mooch the traffic.
I hope this ANSWERS Notjoe's question of why don't we want him to take GFY's content and repost it elsewhere.
On another note, we are working on a more powerful search solution, and should have it back up next week.
GFY serves the adult community and is the most active industry forum, we would never want to charge for posting, searching, etc. All we ask is that people give as well as receive, that they contribute posts, do business, and have fun. Make no mistake. GFY does not authorize the theft of the content that resides on GFY servers. The board leech sites are unauthorized content theives, it's the same if I were to spider a dating site, and steal all of the info that was posted there. They do not ask permission, and we request that they do not do it.
Why are board leeches bad?
1. They slow the board down, every day.
2. They have crashed the board several times with their bots.
3. They keep people from contributing to the forum they read, if you can read it without visiting, you are less likely to post.
4. It's ILLEGAL content theft.
I am asking nicely for all board leeches to stop republishing GFY. If you won't do it nicely, we can do it not so nice. We have taken legal action on board leeches in the past, and we will in the future. We start with a DCMA notice, it's usually enough to lose your hosting. Then we will escalate it from there.
Some people ask: Why do smaller boards allow it? Because they are SMALLER, and they hope to mooch the traffic.
I hope this ANSWERS Notjoe's question of why don't we want him to take GFY's content and repost it elsewhere.
On another note, we are working on a more powerful search solution, and should have it back up next week.
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