The Great Blogosphere Mystery

Shortly after starting blogging I joined a blogging advertising that actually glorified traffic exchange.  Basically what you did was mindlessly click on ads that were placed by earning credits for mindlessly clicking on ads.  Without going into further detail on the particular ad network, there was a blog on there that was quite popular.  It was called Monkey Tales.  I used to visit it quite often while doing my drops.  Then one day everything blew apart!  The author behind Monkey Tales was found to be copying articles from other sources then using it on his/her blog.  In fact there wasn't any original content on this blog at all.  This person had serious dubbed every member in that particular network.  He/she was an active member in that network's forums and rather well respected within that network community.   When this came to light the author never gave an explanation just took down the blog.  Through the blogosphere there are rumours this author is back doing the exact same thing. 

Now here are a few things to ponder on this whole bizarre situation:

• The blogger never had any type of advertising other than the ad network mentioned.  At the time there was speculation the owner of the ad network was behind this and maybe he was but there certainly was no obvious monetary or any other type of gain by the author.  
• The authour of this particular blog actively engaged with other bloggers and on forums so basically was viewed as a blogger within the blogging community.  
• The author simply and very quietly removed the blog of question and as mentioned has reappeared as the author of other blogs.  They are always Blogger blogs, never have any advertising, use very minimally modified Blogger templates and all content is 100% cut and paste from another blog.
• The reasoning for doing this is really rather baffling as the author wasn't making any money off of the plagiarized content.  The chances of doing much harm to where the original material was posted as far as SEO due to duplicate content was pretty much nil since the original content would have been indexed while the for the secondary content would have been flagged as duplicate.  So there really was no apparent gain for the author by any stretch of the imagination. 
• The author offered no  explanation upon being uncovered just simple deleted that blog and left the ad network leaving other bloggers to speculate what the heck had happened.  But as mentioned rumours are the author is still doing this using the same MO.  The last I heard at least 4 active, plagerizerized blogs were being attributed to this particular unknown author. 

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