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· 6 months ago · 8 replies · 340

If a member caused so much drama and got banned and in retaliation they decided to clone/copycat your forum how would you handle this? Have you seen this happen before and if so how was it handled?

8 replies

· 6 months ago

This hasn't happened to me but I have seen a few people create a clone after they were banned by a certain community. In the beginning, they even created a sensation but soon the enthusiasm died and they ended up shutting it down.

· 5 months ago

This hasn't happened to me before but I know of a forum that was copied by people who didn't like the staff. Anyways if my forum was copyrighted by myself I would send a cease and desist to the person copying my forum. Otherwise I would ignore the other forum and I figure that the person would eventually get bored with their community or it won't grow and they'll give up on it eventually. I would also make a thread on my forum telling others that the other forum is a fake and not to join it.

· 1 month ago

I’d probably just wait and see. In situations where I’ve seen this happen, it usually backfires on the person who decided to copy the forum.

Anyways I had a situation where a user copied a lot of my forum. Not exact clone, but probably around 90% the same. They didn’t cause drama or anything. I just figured they were trying to figure out how to make their forum more successful and liked what was going on with my forum. I didn’t call them out on it but did notice they changed the forum again after a while to something different (which I notice they did a lot).

· 1 month ago

On Sep 7, 2026, JWeb said:
I’d probably just wait and see. In situations where I’ve seen this happen, it usually backfires on the person who decided to copy the forum.

Anyways I had a situation where a user copied a lot of my forum. Not exact clone, but probably around 90% the same. They didn’t cause drama or anything. I just figured they were trying to figure out how to make their forum more successful and liked what was going on with my forum. I didn’t call them out on it but did notice they changed the forum again after a while to something different (which I notice they did a lot).

Is that forum still around?

· 1 month ago

On Sep 7, 2026, Kathy said:
Is that forum still around?

No, it shut down not too long afterwards. And mine did as well a while after.

· 1 month ago

On Sep 7, 2026, JWeb said:
No, it shut down not too long afterwards. And mine did as well a while after.

Sorry to read that! Would you ever build it back up again? I mean, Forum Spark is pretty easy and low cost!

· 1 month ago

On Sep 8, 2026, Kathy said:
Sorry to read that! Would you ever build it back up again? I mean, Forum Spark is pretty easy and low cost!

I thought about it, but I don’t have as much time as I would like to spend on it.

That being said, I did try out Forum Spark for another forum idea I had based on my blog and enjoyed it! If I had more time to give then I would give it more of a go.

· 1 month ago

On Mar 28, 2026, LlamaCake said:
If a member caused so much drama and got banned and in retaliation they decided to clone/copycat your forum how would you handle this? Have you seen this happen before and if so how was it handled?

I’ve created forums because I was upset with how the forum owner was running theirs.

I didn’t copycat it or try to steal their members, though. LOL. Heck, I even bought out the competition once.

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