Hi Bill,
Thanks for pruning.
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Originally Posted by W.F. Lantry
To be perfectly honest, it's no big deal. I've never had an editor deny a poem or a story because it got screen-scraped. They'd have to look through thousands and thousands of links, and who has time for that?
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That's not the case here. All I had to do to find my poem was to put the title and and a few words from the first line into Google. It was the top link. It was the
only link. It would take an editor a few seconds to find. If I were an editor and I wanted to see if the poem existed online that's what I'd do. I'd stick title and the first line or two into Google.
I can't find any of my other Sphere poems anywhere else on the web except on this site. O.k. granted I haven't searched exhaustively. I searched on a handful. Two came on this site. The rest came up nowhere.
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I've just pruned everything on metrical and the deep end to 30 days ago. Will the scrapers still have the data up on their sites? Yes, they will... for a while, until they refresh their databases, or the sites expire.
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They have data for the past three years. Of course the pruning means that the link to my poem now leads nowhere, which is good news.
Best,
Matt