Wow, What?

Stick66 · Aug 3, 2008

For me, the page has no article. Just the site header and left margin. I think they fixed it now.

blankoblanco · Aug 3, 2008

yep, looks like they got rid of it... again. let's see if it sticks this time

rivertapped · Aug 3, 2008

Glad you brought this to everyone's attention. Looks like the situation is being rectified and a plagiarist has been exposed.

Well done.

switch0723 · Aug 3, 2008

combuboom said:
i just subscribed joe g's email to "gay porn daily"

:rofl: <3

shinedown.45 · Aug 3, 2008

ajrobin said:
Signing him up for midget porn

combuboom said:
i just subscribed joe g's email to "gay porn daily"

KMC1828 said:
well...since someone has cracked the egg on that one....

beastiality porn would work just as well.

^^^^ROFLMFAO^^^^

I had recieved the 2 following replies from the site.

What are you talking about? We removed the article from our site within 5 minutes of being notified that he copied the article. Are you still seeing it somewhere? (please send me the URL where you see it, as we believe we've deleted it already)

Rick

OK. Looks like the webserver was caching the page. We had tried deleting the page, but it was apparently still being cached by the webserver.

I think we resolved it by replacing the old page with a new, empty page (apparently the system cached the old page somehow).

Please clear your browser cache and let me know if it's now gone.

Thanks

Rick

Crummy · Aug 3, 2008

Report them to the BBB.

shinedown.45 · Aug 3, 2008

And one last E-mail from them.

We've been duped by this guy for several months now. In looking deeper, he'd copied from other sources the prior 2 months newsletters...

Very disappointing, to say the least.

We're a relatively new organization, so this is one of those hard-learned lessons for us.

We'll be using COPYSCAPE in the future to detect this kind of thing before it can happen, so in a sense, this event has actually helped us to avoid future problems.

I'm in contact with the author of the original author. I think we've resolve the matter (now that our webserver's cache has been cleared).

G'day.

Rick

KMC1828 · Aug 3, 2008

shinedown.45 said:
I'm in contact with the author of the original author. I think we've resolve the matter (now that our webserver's cache has been cleared).

G'day.

Rick

does this mean he's in contact with KC's parents? thats kind of weird

KingCurtis · Aug 3, 2008

KMC1828 said:
does this mean he's in contact with KC's parents? thats kind of weird

lol i think they just messed up...prolly all nervous from all the emails

Tammy · Aug 3, 2008

I for one am very impressed with the way this was handled by Rick Braddy. Below is his response to my last email:

Tammy,

I believe we've scrubbed this copied stuff out of our site now (I found several other copied articles by Joe - absolutely disgusting)

Thanks for bringing this to our attention and for handling it in such a professional manner. We run a clean site and don't put up with this kind of stuff.

This has actually helped us, in a way. We'll now use COPYSCAPE on our newsletter content BEFORE we ever send it out in the future, so this kind of stuff can't sneak past us. We're a relatively young organization (having just launched in February), so I guess these are just normal growing pains... (but painful nevertheless).

Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused ya'll.

Rick

The page no longer displays the article, and I am confident that he will be a little more careful in the future about checking out people's sources (especially after dealing with all of us

). All in all, I'm pleased with how this has turned out.

blankoblanco · Aug 3, 2008

you rock, tammy

Dwilius · Aug 3, 2008

Nice going, JuiceeQ....so KC, what do you think your article was worth? How much was this guy getting paid?.

KingCurtis · Aug 3, 2008

D'wilius said:
Nice going, JuiceeQ so KC, what do you think your article was worth? How much was this guy getting paid?.

a free membership to their site......hence me turning down the his offer to be an author for them....I'd rather post for free so ppl learn at CC

Dwilius · Aug 3, 2008

KingCurtis said:
a free membership to their site......hence me turning down the offer to be an author for them....I'd rather post for free so ppl learn at CC

...so people pay to read advice, but the authors don't get paid. Why wouldn't those people just come to CardsChat in the first place? Rick may have handled it well, but good luck attracting people to that site.

ajrobin · Aug 3, 2008

Joe still has a lot of gay, midget and possibly animal porn to look forward to. Wonder what his inbox looks like tommorrow.

KMC1828 · Aug 3, 2008

ajrobin said:
Joe still has a lot of gay, midget and possibly animal porn to look forward to. Wonder what his inbox looks like tommorrow.

lol oh lawd. oh well, he deserves it

roland cote · Aug 3, 2008

KC is a very young and quite inteligent young man. I have read many of his posts and his knowledge of he game and stratagies is very laudable in someone of his age. I=Or anyones for that matter. It is reallyvery distressing for me to hear that that an article of this quality has been plagerized and the credit taken from such a brilliant and loyal member. KC, I just hope that this incident does not influence some thing s that you may do in the future, or prevent you from doing them. IMO I think tht you should do EVERYTHING that is possible to reak total havoc on that site and the person who STOLE your article. Not just for revenge, but, so that you know within yourself that everything possible was done to make things as right as legally and morally possible. I just don't like the thought that this might affect some of your decisions and actions in the future, whatever they may be. GO GET EM KID!!!

rickbr · Aug 3, 2008

Issue Resolved - Apologies

Hi,

My name is Rick Braddy, President/CEO of Royal Flush Club.

We first became aware of the copied article this Sunday morning (what a way to wake up!)

Anyway, I think we have this resolved now. I did delete the original article from our content management system, but apparently the webserver still had the page cached. It took a little experimenting and time, but we were able to finally resolve it by posting an empty page, which overwrote the cached page (so it was simply a technical issue that delayed the page's permanent removal from our site).

As you might expect, we were very disappointed to find that one of our trusted, founding members had blatantly copied an article from this site.
Upon further inspection, we discovered several other copied articles from this same "author" (all of which have been removed from our site).

I was very impressed with the professional manner in which this matter was handled by CardsChat and its membership.

Again, apologies for our mistake. We will be implementing some new content review procedures to (hopefully) prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future.

With best regards,

Rick Braddy
President/CEO
Royal Flush Club Members

KingCurtis · Aug 3, 2008

I look at it this way......I really don't need to do anything to that site or talk bad about them since obv CC is better since our articles have to be stolen, plus our members are so defensive when, an article, which they have not even written is taking, since everything at CC is everybody's, we don't have to pay for it(except for the buy-ins

) So basicaly they will never be as good as CC, even though you have to pay there.

Dwilius · Aug 3, 2008

Thanks for resolving it Rick, and as you can see above Tammy had the same high opinion of how you handled it.

roland cote · Aug 3, 2008

Ther were a lot of new replies written while I was writing my other one. I think the gay porn thing is absolutelu hilarrious. Glad kabuboom wasn't inmy college dorm,LOL

Dwilius · Aug 3, 2008

I hope most of the spam comments were jokes, but it was all anger directed towards Joe Blow. btw JuiceeQ is not currently on to respond, Rick...and I think KC's last comment was typed at the same time as yours, so he might not have seen your post.

rickbr · Aug 3, 2008

No worries. Hey - I'm just ready to get back to playing poker over here.

Ya'll have a great weekend.

Rick

KerouacsDog · Aug 4, 2008

nice of you to sort this out, rickbr, and also nice of you to take the time to register so that you could post here.

Damn, so gutted this is now sorted, so to speak, i was so looking forward to witch-hunting that Joe guy down, and getting him hooked up with some nice spam emails!

KC, basque in the glory of knowing that you are a professional poker writer worthy of being plagarised, sir!

And thanks to Tammy for going down the formal, and polite, route to sort this out.
(i still prefer witch-hunts, but that's just me!)

Munchrs · Aug 4, 2008

but you turned down a free membership

that is like saying no to free money that you know was stolen.

KC you and CC rock, everyone else sux except for JQ and CC members and me, oh and MR muckets with his excellent advice.

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