Here's the plagiarizer's new Substack profile: https://substack.com/@michaeldehaan - the profile was created 2024-04-26. That's not the actual author, it's someone stealing Michael's content under their own name.
For now, please be suspicious of Substack-hosted content - here or elsewhere - from anyone without obvious reputation. Obviously stealing old Substack hostnames and posting otherwise-identical content on the orignal URLs is now a thing. Their URLs are not as stable/consistent as we all (reasonably!) assume.
Substack, if you allow old hostnames to be re-used, how about removing the ability to use the same URL slug? Or at least removing the ability to back-date posts? It's probably worth looking for old URLs (ie, hostname+page slug) that have been re-published by different Substack accounts, too - obviously this flaw is being exploited.
Plagiarizer, you're obviously active on HN. Can you share more about why you're doing this? Boredom? Substack monetization grift?
Here's the plagiarizer's new Substack profile: https://substack.com/@michaeldehaan - the profile was created 2024-04-26. That's not the actual author, it's someone stealing Michael's content under their own name.
For now, please be suspicious of Substack-hosted content - here or elsewhere - from anyone without obvious reputation. Obviously stealing old Substack hostnames and posting otherwise-identical content on the orignal URLs is now a thing. Their URLs are not as stable/consistent as we all (reasonably!) assume.
Substack, if you allow old hostnames to be re-used, how about removing the ability to use the same URL slug? Or at least removing the ability to back-date posts? It's probably worth looking for old URLs (ie, hostname+page slug) that have been re-published by different Substack accounts, too - obviously this flaw is being exploited.
Plagiarizer, you're obviously active on HN. Can you share more about why you're doing this? Boredom? Substack monetization grift?