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Send a follow-up email when a user reports that some Stack Exchange content is plagiarised by another website

I reported a website (Quora) copying a significant amount of Stack Exchange content via https://meta.stackexchange.com/contact and got the following response from the Stack Overflow support team via ...
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How, and why, did the code in my question end up in Pastebin?

I recently posted a question in Mathematica SE, Can a package append its context to $DistributedContexts?. Out of idle curiosity I then googled for some of the code in the question, and I was very ...
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Are page requests rate-limited (throttled)?

I'm building an application that detects plagiarized answers on Stack Overflow, so I need to retrieve the content of answers programatically. I know I can do this using the Stack Exchange API, but ...
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Scraping the chatroom

I've been webscraping the chat room with as goal to retrieve some statistics. (have a look at this meta on security.SE (What do you guys want to know about what is said in the DMZ?) After indexing ...
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A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What should I do?

Since day one of Stack Overflow, all content posted on Stack Exchange sites by their users (i.e. you wonderful people) has been provided to the whole universe under the CC BY-SA license. For my fellow ...
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Is there an open-source web scraper for Stack Exchange sites?

I wish to gather some data from a licensed corporate intranet Stack Exchange, however it doesn't seem to expose the API as with public Stack Exchange sites. Are there any existing open-source ...
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Sort of copy of my question on a different site [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Report sites that use SE content without following attribution rules here I am not sure if this belongs here: Report sites that use Stack Exchange content without following ...
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Report sites that use Stack Exchange content without following attribution rules here [duplicate]

NB The following is a community-generated list of websites that republish Stack Exchange content without attributing it properly. It is no longer being maintained, because the procedure for reporting ...
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Showing off some related [M]SOF coding

After some previous questions about polite scraping('s), etc. I wrapped up work on a three site, 50 newest questions display grid. Would it be all right to ask for some peer review of it on Meta Stack ...
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