Ask HN: Why would someone want to borrow my site?

  • I have 2 suspicions:

    1 - That the users don't realize they need to subscribe and talked to "a friend" who said something like "we link to [your_site]" and that they're doing it on the sly/cheap.

    2 - That the folks linking may be wanting to pass themselves off as the author of your site and that's why they're linking there. The URL provided is blocked by our office, so I can't do much checking for you.

    I came across another link which I submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=690600 (this has some of the bad links corrected). You may need to do some detective work on google to see if anything has been indexed yet and what that might be.

    If your demo template has sales and contact information for YOU, then that might be a sufficient deterrant.