Stealing Content From Your Proifle

The cynic in me thinks that if anyone copied our profile we would be tempted to meet up with them and then say something like "crap you don't even look like us. We were expecting our dopplegangers".
F&N

That actually happened to me on another site... And I'm a single male. It was a female profile that copied everything I said. It was strange to me and I immediately thought, oh a fake profile. There were some lines I wrote that was obvious to anyone, that a man would say it. So idk if that profile ever got far.

Sorry to hear it happened to you.

Mayhem - you're putting 10x the effort into telling me that than it takes to post the disclaimer. lol

The single paragraph, copy and paste open source disclaimer at the bottoms of profiles pairs with the TOS of the site and isn't a big deal. Really I think the gullible part, at worst, would be to assume even most people out there who use it believe it to be remotely bulletproof. Heck, even the SLS TOS and PP are shaky at best.

calcanfun2 - That disclaimer isn't worth the time it takes to cut/paste it in.

“I think a lot of people copy and paste the passage at the end of many profiles regarding not giving permission for their profile to be used in research.”

The legal term for that disclaimer is “a waste of time.”

That disclaimer text isn't worth the time or space it takes to copy. It doesn't protect you from anything and worst case, makes you look gullable.

I especially get a kick out of it on people's profiles that claim to need a lot of discretion. Like they're going to take someone to court where it will become public that they are swingers because someone used their content.

If I remember correctly in the sites Ts & Cs, SLS basically owns your content, so in theory, they'd have to sue someone. Like that would ever happen, and it would still likely make it public that you were swingers if they did.

I think a lot of people copy and paste the passage at the end of many profiles regarding not giving permission for their profile to be used in research. I personally do not have an issue with that. The description of who they are, their pictures, and their interests should be their own. For us, we are looking for genuine connections that can be longer lasting. Copying text from others is disingenuous and not compatible with what we look for in a couple.

That’s the wonderful thing about opinions, everyone is entitled and no one is more entitled than another. If it bothers you, that is truly all that matters. What I or anyone else thinks is irrelevant. It’s good to hear the problem has taken care of itself.

Wish we could agree with you, but we don't. In good news, however, they have since revised their profile description.

We couldn't care less about people copying and pasting our words verbatim. There are much more important matters to concern ourselves with than someone plagiarizing our profile. While stealing photos is one thing, the value of our written words is negligible.

If your words were indeed witty and nuanced (full disclosure, I have no knowledge of what you wrote), they will inevitably be exposed when engaging in real conversations. Genuine authenticity shines through, and those who regurgitate clichés will be revealed.

LOL to literally every single hypocritical word you just typed. It is you who came in to cast shade in a thread that wasn't your own and to which you had nothing intelligent or constructive to add. The children's table is back over there in the corner. Go take a seat.

How childish to throw juvenile insults on someone's wife. Are you old enough to be on here? Your conversations appear similar to those sitting on a jr high school bus. Thank god for the ability to hide behind keyboard bravado. I digress to the sarcasm statement made earlier.

We do have thick skin. And agree that a lot of people don't typically read profiles. People we don't fuck, but maybe you (more likely your wife) do. Those of us with standards appreciate your charitable position towards those with no skill or effort in this.

@ cal can Maybe become a little thicker skinned as you copy and paste. But please, help yourself. No one reads profiles anyway......as they say

You'd think that if the profile burglar was fully intent on their bit of larceny that at least they'd go somewhere else to get the content. If you're living in Boston and you steal someone's content from Houston, at least you could maintain the illusion of creativity.

2muchfunclub2 - sorry that happened to you. We once had a profile on one site steal our photos, use them on another site and then reach out to us. Unreal.

Reiterating what was already stated in the OP, we don't mind people borrowing and actually do feel flattered. It was the fact that the profile is near us and they literally made their own profile read exactly like ours that bothered us. Not more complicated than that.

Wife_is_a_Vixen maybe we move to Winston Salem and copy your profile word for word. Just for shits and giggles.

That happened to us a few years back.

A local couple cut and pasted an entire paragraph of our profile and then they contacted us wanting to meet up.

We declined their offer, told them why and changed that paragraph in our own profile.

Well, there is that "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" thing ;-)

Based on the end result, it sounds like cut/paste was just a first step, followed by revision/s. Apparently they chose to do that in SLS vs an external editor.

LOL profiles are not dissertations. Who cares about plagiarism. Maybe I'll do a dissertation on sarcasm for all about to reply.

Thank you for checking, Wayne. If they did change it, that's great.

<p><a href="https://staging.swinglifestyle.com/profile/lookup.cfm?usercode=3723916">calcanfun2</a>,</p>

<p>I checked that profile that you reported and I did not see any copy and pasted content. Maybe they had already changed it.</p>

Eh. Someone did it with my profile - and sent me a message thanking me for giving her just the right words. I did suggest that she find her own words, since I couldn't see her pulling off a single grammatically correct message, let along enough to make a date, but whatever. I was a little annoyed initially, but then amused.

That’s a shitty move. I like to copy a witty turn of phrase, but lifting whole paragraphs is just wrong.