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Re:Masterbranch scrapes github, pretends I'm using their site by rwolf on Monday April 04, 2011 @10:01PM (#2409370)
The link to my project is not clickable, and masterbranch tells visitors they need to sign up to talk to me.

Classy.

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Re:Masterbranch scrapes github, pretends I'm using their site by rhizome on Monday April 04, 2011 @10:29PM (#2409426)
Hey, it worked for GetSatisfaction.
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Re:Masterbranch scrapes github, pretends I'm using their site by vramosp on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @03:23AM (#2410050)
Visitors can't contact users which are not registered. We did it in the past, but you're right, it was classy, and we changed it. http://blog.masterbranch.com/post/3570253595/were-listening-...

The project page is under review and we'll link to the original page for sure.

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Re:Masterbranch scrapes github, pretends I'm using their site by rwolf on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @06:03PM (#2412945)
From your blog post: "Unclaimed profiles are now NOINDEX. We’ve also changed profile URLs so that indexed profiles by search engines will start being de-indexed."

Not true--your contentless scrape of my github project is the second result for that project name in google. I just made the project yesterday, so it's not a case of the project being already in an index.

I don't want to "claim" my project--it already has hosting, a mechanism for contacting me, and an issue tracker.

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Re:Masterbranch scrapes github, pretends I'm using their site by vramosp on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @03:57AM (#2414292)
By "profiles" I meant user profiles, not project pages... as I have already said, this pages need to be improved, and the aim is not to supply the original page but to complement it.
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Re:Masterbranch scrapes github, pretends I'm using their site by kenneth_reitz on Monday April 04, 2011 @11:54PM (#2409623)
Yeah, softpedia does this too. A shame.
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