All,
In part, for me, this was prompted by
Rattle announcing a change of rules to fall more in line with what they consider standard.
Here's the Facebook post.
Here are couple of comments from the editor Tim Green in response to questions:
"I Google lines from every poem before publishing, so see if they've been published anywhere else."
"The rule of thumb is that if you can Google some of the lines and nothing comes up, then you're fine"
My concern is that two of the poems I've just sent him violate this rule of thumb as a result of rssing.com, which is frustrating as if it weren't for rssing.com we'd be completely hidden here on the Sphere. Most likely the fact the poems have been / will be pruned / gutted will be enough. I'll email him for clarification. Besides, I imagine he'll have plenty of poetry-related reasons to reject my poems and so never get around to searching for them anyway!
Alex,
I appreciate that asking a scraper to cease scraping may be more trouble than it's worth, or ineffective. Searching around I did come across
this blogger who did ask them to desist (full text of his email in the comments) and then reported back that he was successful; they removed all stored data and stopped scraping him.
best,
Matt