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Pidge said:
Is there a time limit on how long pin & pop will wait for someone to approve or reject a pin?

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That seems like an unreasonably long time. I would send an email to support on that one.
 
Chris Nickols said:
@Randakinskywalker is correct. With the explosion of AI-built apps, many of the existing pin database sites are getting scraped and our content stolen. This has cause site slowdowns and outages because bots are scraping thousands of pages per second and forced us to increase server costs, work on ways to mitigate it, and (unfortunately) expose less data outside of our free account login.
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By chance, are you able to say which sites or apps have scraped? I've contributed a few photos to the site and are curious if mine are on any other platforms
 
I am also part of the .8%. I had 3 pins remaining after my previous shipment and I also didn't do August TA, so it's not like I have an expected future shipment that will bigger. So I expect at some point, I will get a small package with those pins? Personally, I would have held my previous shipment until the last 3 were ready. Especially, because by the time that shipment shipped it would have shown in the system that I didn't do Aug TA. Pin & Pop ends up paying for extra postage this way.
 
oswaldtheluckytrader said:
By chance, are you able to say which sites or apps have scraped? I've contributed a few photos to the site and are curious if mine are on any other platforms
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Any new app or website that launches with 30k+ pins (or even 10k) has almost certainly scraped that data from another source. We started with around 25k - 30k pins in 2019 with direct permission from the Pin Trading DB. It then took us about 6 years to get to 100k and our Mods have worked very hard to remove photos that users have uploaded from other pin databases that we don't have permission to use. It's possible that as pins have become more popular, a new site could get to 100k much faster than it took us and that sometimes users are uploading photos that don't belong to them so it's not always the result of scraping.

Look for your photos on any of those apps that claim to have a lot of pins. If you find your photos being used, you can use their report or contact form to request removal of your images, but I've heard of at least a few people who've been blocked from the pin trading app after reporting their photos used without permission. Legit apps and sites should comply with your request within a reasonable time frame.
 
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