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Topic: sembt.com clones entire Bitcointalk topics - page 2. (Read 458 times)

legendary
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Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
February 28, 2024, 01:30:05 AM
#7
I can't remember exact links but I am sure this is not the first time we see someone cloning bitcointalk forum.
I've seen them, but those were either fishing sites, or just full clones. This new one looks like it's trying to be a forum and uses "our" posts to make it look active.

You didn't say how they renamed you  Wink
I didn't find myself, but it looks like they didn't keep a fixed name for each user. The copied posts get a new random name.
legendary
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February 28, 2024, 12:49:46 AM
#6
It appears they used the forum database to create their own content. The content is a little different and they have other sections that appear to be clones from other forums.

PrivacyG turned into LynnWalter, pakhitheboss turned into 8564Jg, pooya87 turned into SBSBB and Edwin, hd49728 turned into steven136 and hugeblack turned into brandon58 Cheesy

These usernames are random and vary depending on the topic. I searched for some topic and found that they changed the username several times.
Some forum codes seem broken here
legendary
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February 28, 2024, 12:32:05 AM
#5
Their user images are probably AI generated.

Only the images? I wouldn't be surprised if at least part of the text is too.

They named me as 2Philip, 1miau as MortonAddison, Bitmover as AllenTennyson, and DdmrDdmr as DonahueChaplin. The one who created that forum might know about Bitcointalk or might be a member of this forum I guess.

Any idea who am I there? I have visited the forum, but as the structure is different, they have not cloned thread by thread this forum, I do not just see myself there.

They cloned Bitcointalk and maybe they are doing it to gain traffic. When they see enough website traffic, they will stop cloning Bitcointalk and sell their site to something else.

Well, I don't know, surely if I had done it I wouldn't sell it when it starts to work. I'm curious, since we already have movies made by AI in which the actors who appear are people who do not exist, and are made without scriptwriters or cameras or anything that is used to make a movie traditionally. Could such a forum be monetized? I mean if apart from the traffic there are also bots generating text with AI.

full member
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February 27, 2024, 09:38:41 PM
#4
They cloned Bitcointalk and maybe they are doing it to gain traffic. When they see enough website traffic, they will stop cloning Bitcointalk and sell their site to something else.

Their site will not be shut down if they clone exactly the Bitcointalk forum from topics, posts to usernames. Do anyone know possible reasons of using random usernames on that clone site?

[SCAM] fake Bitcointalk forum clone BitInfo.cc !!!
Duplicate of Bitcointalk.
hero member
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February 27, 2024, 04:11:44 PM
#3
I visited that forum and noticed that all of the threads were created today. The boards on that forum are named differently, and I have noticed that they have changed names of almost each member of this forum.

They named me as 2Philip, 1miau as MortonAddison, Bitmover as AllenTennyson, and DdmrDdmr as DonahueChaplin. The one who created that forum might know about Bitcointalk or might be a member of this forum I guess.
legendary
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February 27, 2024, 03:51:21 PM
#2
That site pretends to be an active forum, but simply clones Bitcointalk! Their user images are probably AI generated.
I can't remember exact links but I am sure this is not the first time we see someone cloning bitcointalk forum.
Looks like this specific clone was made in China, and maybe they wanted to create fake conversation mixed with their own posts.

PrivacyG turned into LynnWalter, pakhitheboss turned into 8564Jg, pooya87 turned into SBSBB and Edwin, hd49728 turned into steven136 and hugeblack turned into brandon58 Cheesy
You didn't say how they renamed you  Wink
I see they didn't included all boards and they added a lot of hearts with every action  Tongue
legendary
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Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
February 27, 2024, 01:42:21 PM
#1
Look what I just found (use Tor browser or VPN, don't expose your IP to this site): https://sembt.LINKBREAKERcom/thread-15254-1-12.html.
Now compare that to https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-is-a-different-kind-of-wonder-5481114 (the OP looks like chatbot spam, but that's not the point).

That site pretends to be an active forum, but simply clones Bitcointalk! Their user images are probably AI generated.

PrivacyG turned into LynnWalter, pakhitheboss turned into 8564Jg, pooya87 turned into SBSBB and Edwin, hd49728 turned into steven136 and hugeblack turned into brandon58 Cheesy
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