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by epi0Bauqu 5722 days ago
As a concrete case to discuss, what about something like http://poeet.com/

I made this over a weekend. And the people whose poetry is being captured love it. But it is auto-generated in the sense you're talking about.

It actually went down for a bit and I got a bunch of complaints, enough that I got it back up relatively quickly.

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Theres a clear difference between your site http://poeet.com and a clean cut case of auto generated spam. Your site is actually quite creative where it is aggregating content from a twitter hashtag and indexing short poems that may otherwise go unnoticed, you are also showing the users original tweet and @user and not manipulating anything. The original poster was likely scraping content, not providing citation and for the means of having the duplicate content wrapped around ads.