Whack a mole is right! In the 4 years I've been writing on Medium, my scraped content has usually been available on some sort of bot-pirate site. They go up, they go down, and I sometimes make an effort to help them go down, but baby it's just the Internet, and if I spent a bunch of time worrying about it, I'd never get any writing done.

And guess what? Now that I appear regularly in traditional publications as well, that content gets scraped and reused too. Or worse. Sometimes I find whole unattributed paragraphs of my writing, or at least a few sentences, in popular blogs and LGBTQ-specific digital publications. One very well known publication lifted two entire paragraphs with only slight modification about a month ago.

So far, I haven't chosen to do anything about any of that. Is imitation the most sincere form of flattery? I don't know.

When I ask myself what I should do, I try to focus first on why I'm writing and next on how I can best be practically compensated for that writing.

If going after scrapers and plagiarizers doesn't help me advance those goals, I generally don't bother. Cuz I'm busy writing stuff people might later want to copy. Lol