Well, glad I could help make you feel better about this.

Hm, like I already mentioned in my email I can be such a clueless n00b about things at times (ok, most times), and the times I went and checked the pages out, I never found any way to contact anyone to express my views about my work getting used there.

It is frustrating, but in most cases you can do something about it. What I’ve taken to doing is hitting back at the advertisers and trying to cut off the revenue stream. If you can do that, then spammers will have no motivation to take your work.

Still, it is nice to know that I am not the only one seeing those trackbacks, I need to go back into my folder in a bit and see if I have anything new. I try to do it once every few days now.

But that raises the question, what kind of idiot scrapes Plagiarism Today?

Once n00b blog tinkerer me realized that Akismet is effective at catching spam but won’t prevent known IPs from coming back to get caught again and again and again, I started sifting through Akismet on a regular basis and to block those IPs manually. (Besides, Akismet occasionally feels a strong dislike against two of my blogging friends and throws them into the spam folder, from where they then need rescuing.)

Recently I have been getting rather a lot of those trackbacks you are mentioning.
The pages range from ones similar to those you described to pages who seem to be WordPress theme examples. Mostly the latter.
Even so, it annoys the heck out of me to see my words (unimportant as they might be in the grand scheme of things) senselessly scattered all over the place.
Sometimes it seems for every IP I block, there will be two new ones tomorrow…

RS: I don’t know about exhaustive, it didn’t take that long to figure out the solution, but it was an interesting puzzle. It would still be very worthwhile to see these plugin makers rise up and address this issue though, for our sakes.