Let's take a look!
According to the official guidelines for scrapers, all scrapers must have the following things:
- Visually indicate that the content is from StackExhange in some way. It doesn’t have to be obnoxious; a discreet text blurb is fine. [Okay, it does this]
- Hyperlink directly to the original question on the source site (e.g., https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12345) [Drat, it does this too.]
- Show the author names for every question and answer [It doesn't do this!]
- Hyperlink each author name directly back to their user profile page on the source site (e.g., https://stackoverflow.com/users/12345/username) [I guess it does this too]
So, right out of the box it already has a violation.
However, let's dig a bit deeper!
Again in the official guidelines:
By “directly”, I mean each hyperlink must point directly to our domain in standard HTML visible even with JavaScript disabled, and not use a TinyURL URL or any other form of obfuscation or redirection. Furthermore, the links must not be nofollowed.
If we break out our web inspection tool, we notice something interesting:
So it does use a nofollow.
And, it might be worth to mention that the social links at the bottom redirect back to UbuntuSolved. Not good.
TL;DR: It would be proper to report this page as they're not following attribution guidelines by not including usernames and by including rel=nofollow.
