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Send a follow-up email when a user reports that some Stack Exchange content is plagiarised by another website
To be perfectly honest: we don't send any follow-up because we do nothing with about 99.9% of those reports. After we did analysis on scraper reports a couple years ago, we found that the vast ...
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Should we block OpenAI's Atlas web browser?
Well could and would SE do it are separate questions. The AUP as of when I wrote this post says
Content Scraping
You may not use any automated data-gathering means (including robots, spiders, ...
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Is there any software which can scrape review queues?
For historical data, one can use a SEDE query like this one - it shows the number of review tasks which were created on a certain day, split by type.
You can use the API to get a (real-time) list of ...
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The FAQ for scrapers contradicts the Acceptable Use Policy for scraping
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but doesn't the Acceptable Use Policy, despite its posturing, not ban scraping altogether?
When I trim out the long example lists from the quote, I get the following:
You ...
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Should we block OpenAI's Atlas web browser?
The primary purpose of this site is to share knowledge as wide as possible within the license restrictions (mostly attribution). Therefore any restriction should be well reasoned. Technical ...
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