What's this all about then?

http://www.tvby.cn/smp/h/?empeg_general

Just came across it via Google and wondered....

Odd, never seen that before. Might explain the higher then normal spidering requests. I wonder why someone in China would want to mirror this without translation.

What is the point of an English language mirror of this board? I'm inclined to ask if it's possible to block it. Pointless.

The point is normally that the person mirroring it adds some adverts above and below it and makes some cash out of other people efforts. In this case I am guessing it is a work in progress, due to the lack of ads. It happens a lot to various newsgroups and forums.

Thinking about it more, it probably explains some of the spam threads that we have seen here. I saw an interesting addon for another board in action today that tries to stop spam by preventing URLs, either properly put in with [url] tags or just typed out until the user is 7 days old or has 10 posts. I might look at doing that on the 7.x boards.

I saw this article and it reminded me of the site mentioned in this thread.