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Please remove my name from your about page. I am not the administrator of this site and wouldn't spam like this.

Done.

I didn't think I needed to be this specific, but: please finish the job and write an entire about page for your site. Yours still says "Lobsters" up and down it, and even if you search-and-replace the name there's a lot of stuff that's not about your site on there.

Is this site a ripoff of lobste.rs or what?

Our codebase is available under 3-clause BSD and we're usually thrilled to see sister sites: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/wiki

The administrator of this site submitted a Bitcoin affiliate spam site to Lobsters, was one of the very few users to hit the automatic anti-spam threshhold (MIN_KARMA_TO_SUBMIT_STORIES), and abused our issue tracker to have us configure this site for him. So, uh, no, we have nothing to do with this site and are not exactly fans.

I don't know how I "abused" your issue tracker. :P

I filed a github issue on your lobsters open source project asking how to change the logo. If not there, where else should I file issues related to the codebase??

Our readme explicitly says we don't support people setting up their own sites. You did it anyways, we told you we won't support you, and you did it again.

not a ripoff, they just are using the codebase and have forgotten to remove all instances of the "Lobsters" name (along with having what looks like one user at the moment?) I mean, I hope they succeed as a different type of site or accomplish whatever learning they would like.

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