I've been visiting another well known forum recently ( when DS was down) Im not a member but enjoy reading the threads.
One day I was on DM website and was reading an article and recognised some of the content. I then realised they had based a whole article on the thread I had been reading. I went back to do some digging and found this was not a one time event and it happened frequently. I could also tell, looking back at the threads, which "users" were posting to keep the conversation going and heading it in the way they desired. As much as I like DS, it would put me off posting and joining in conversation if I knew it was likely to be dressed up and used online for thousands of people to scrutinise
One day I was on DM website and was reading an article and recognised some of the content. I then realised they had based a whole article on the thread I had been reading. I went back to do some digging and found this was not a one time event and it happened frequently. I could also tell, looking back at the threads, which "users" were posting to keep the conversation going and heading it in the way they desired. As much as I like DS, it would put me off posting and joining in conversation if I knew it was likely to be dressed up and used online for thousands of people to scrutinise



