A DU ripoff site and Stormfront share the same layout

thedecline

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Mon Feb-28-05 02:54 AM
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A DU ripoff site and Stormfront share the same layout

Edited on Mon Feb-28-05 02:59 AM by thedecline

While reading Little Green Nazis I discovered there is a site that is a ripoff of Democratic Underground. Besides the fact that this site's name is a shameful ripoff of DU, but for conservatives, something else that is pathetic/funny is that the front page of the site looks exactly like the front page of famous white supremacist/nazi website Stormfront.org, except for different headers.

I realize this is because they're both using the same messageboard/content management system php script, but still, it's a little weird :)

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Goldmund

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Mon Feb-28-05 02:56 AM
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1. There's a rule...

...against mentioning that site here. I just learned about it yesterday, actually.

Also, the similarities between the sites don't mean anything. They just must have used the same software to build the board.

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LeftyMom

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Mon Feb-28-05 02:58 AM
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2. We've been asked by the admins not to mention a certain site

named in your post because it encourages them. You may want to edit the name of the ripoff site out of your post.

Welcome to DU! :)

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Dogmudgeon

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Mon Feb-28-05 02:58 AM
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3. I think they are both stock systems

Edited on Mon Feb-28-05 03:00 AM by Pigwidgeon

I've seen many other systems that were virtually identical, the unmodified message system.

Democratic Underground, on the other hand, is based on a commercial product that has been greatly tweaked.

The "other" Underground actually has a few decent conservative users, but the screech monkeys still drown out all semblance of civil dialog. The Conservatives still tolerate this crap, but I suspect that it won't be long before the Cons with a few brains left start making noise about the hotheads.

--p!

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Syrinx

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Mon Feb-28-05 03:01 AM
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4. could be a connection, I guess

CU is out of Atlanta, just did a whois. Stormfront is from Florida. Don Black runs that. He was the head of the KKK at one time.

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alittlelark

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Mon Feb-28-05 03:02 AM
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5. Lookin' to rile people up?

try, and fail.

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Mon Feb-28-05 03:04 AM
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6. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

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Mon Feb-28-05 03:06 AM
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7. Locking.

Inappropriate linking to white supremacist/Nazi website.

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