There's even the possibility that the Google crawler will have seen the SO page before discovering the original small site.
(a) are in response to very specific questions
(b) can be easily reported to SO for plagiarism
(c) make no $$ for the poster, reducing the incentive to plagiarize
They’re saying there are full sites which just scrape SO content. These are not hosted in StackExchange and therefore are not subject to their reporting system, and generally are filled with ads which provide the money and therefore incentive.
I don’t think so. The parent seems to talk about StackOverflow answers plagiarizing some small blogs, not StackOverflow itself being scraped.
Not an issue I’ve witnessed though.
This happens a lot. For instance, a Google search for “maps vs list comprehensions” shows an ad-based website result featured at the top, despite having re-hashed content from the SO post on the same topic.
Clearly, Google’s SEO favors recently-published articles over quality.
I ran a search “react node.js”, and a digital marketing blog post is highlighted in the “Featured by Google” despite being low-quality. So, it’s just spam at the moment to milk views by content-marketers.
Also, it’s hard to plagarise from small blogs when SO is the more active forum for day-to-day solutions. I don’t see that happening a lot.
Are we talking about the same comment?
> when a small site posts something and then that content gets stolen and posted verbatim as an answer on stackoverflow.
This is about SO answers stolen from small blogs, not SO answers stolen and copied to SEO optimized pages. Unless we’re not reading the sentence the same way somehow?
Having said that, SO answers getting stolen from small blogs is a rarity as I wrote in my previous reply.