www.rqna.net scraping EL&U and SE content

Question

The site http://www.rqna.net/index-kmoh.html appears to be reposting a lot of EL&U content with their own ads (and other SE sites too). I can't see any proper attribution, or links back. Some pages say:

Copyright 2011-2013 © Rqna

Their About Us page (http://www.rqna.net/about.html) says:

Rqna is a free question and answer website where you can get answers to your questions or you can help other people in the community by answering their questions.

Interestingly, they have a Report Abuse page (http://www.rqna.net/abuse.html):

We attach great importance to your advises, and what we build this site is for you.
Someone, neither you nor me post some bad infomation [sic] here, we appreciate you report it.
Please tell us your Contact Infomation [sic] if you want our feedback.
If you want to remove question or answer, do tell us the link to it.

Something like this happened on a Blogger blog not so long ago; here's the relevant meta post.

This looks like an exact copy of the recent zqna.net copycat; here's the relevant meta from February.

Answer 1

Network policy has been updated as of Oct. 9 2013

tl;dr: Send all reports of SCRAPERs to us via the contact form linked at the bottom of every page. Please include:

• the URL of the copied post
• the URL of the original post on SE
• for high-rankers, the search string you used (and the name of the search engine, if not Google)
• any other details you noticed and want to share, because you're awesome

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MSO, the main network meta site, has a [now obsolete -ed.] post Report sites that use Stack Exchange content without following attribution rules here where you can report such sites.

Answer 2

I wouldn't bother trying to deal with the offending site directly. Despite what it might say on the Report Abuse page, they probably have no interest whatsoever in addressing complaints.

I suggest those people affected should follow the instructions on this answer to a related question, and file a DMCA complaint with Google. I've done it a couple of times now (it's not much hassle).

Then just leave it to Google to take up cudgels on your behalf. Even if they don't directly force the site to be closed down, they can simply stop indexing it. And without that "oxygen of publicity", it's Bye-bye scrapersite.com!

Answer 3

Here is the Updated procedure for reporting SCRAPERs from a Community Manager at Stack Exchange:

tl;dr: Send all reports of SCRAPERs to [email protected]. Please include:

• the URL of the copied post
• the URL of the original post on SE
• for high-rankers, the search string you used (and the name of the search engine, if not Google)
• any other details you noticed and want to share, because you're awesome

(This is the end of the tl;dr section.)

I used to be the de facto curator of the two SCRAPER reporting posts here on Meta: one for attribution and another for ranking. The community was pretty good about using them, but like all list questions, they eventually turned into unmanageable messes that were hard to search. I've just saved all of the information posted there and deleted them.

The community team has been working on improving its internal process for SCRAPERs behind the scenes, and now that I've joined the staff, I'm going to be in charge of it. By funneling everything through [email protected], we can organize our own efforts better, and as a side effect, we won't be giving Google-juice to the very sites that are being called out for being naughty.