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Unread 04-18-2015, 11:53 AM
Matt Q Matt Q is offline
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Hi Bill,

Thanks for pruning.

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Originally Posted by W.F. Lantry View Post
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?
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.
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

Last edited by Matt Q; 04-18-2015 at 12:03 PM.
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