Atticus - 5:28 pm on Jun 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

"You know who it is who needs to take action to make scrapers extinct but you target all your energies in the fruitless barking at the wrong place - up the "scraper creator" tree. We all seem to agree that scrapers should go, we seem to differ only on the "how". I subscribe to the theory that Google should do something about it, many of you seem to think the responsibility for not creating scrapers should reside with individual webmasters. It is frustrating that at least some people seem to persist in thinking that the latter is even a remotely possible solution."

Well that's a bit convoluted.

I don't like scrapers, see? And I think G should do something about them, see?

I don't expect the scrapers to stop just because I often say, "Gee, I hate those lousy scrapers." And I fail to see how disparaging scrapers causes Google not to do anything about them.

Think of it this way. If I said, "Rapists are bad people," that doesn't mean that I am trying to convince rapists to play nice. And I fail to see how pointing out that rapists are very bad has any negative effect on the police catching them. See?

In fact, the more people who shout, "Look, there goes a rapist," or "Those lousy scrapers really tick me off," the MORE likely it is that some authority figure will take notice and do something about it.

[edited by: Atticus at 5:30 pm (utc) on June 8, 2005]