Are forum quotes basically killing forums SEO?

[Luke]

So I was reading a topic on FP just earlier, and someone quoted a massive post and it went onto the next page. Now we all mostly though that Google doesn't see duplicate content as a good thing, so are forums killing their SEO every time someone quotes a post and it's on a different page than the original?

Google's webmaster guidelines say "don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content."

Because the more people quote, the more duplicate content forums have distributed across them and in some cases there's a massive amount of the same stuff quoted and ends up on different thread pages, which as Google Webmaster Guidelines say: "don't created multiple pages ... with substantially duplicate content."

I'm not sure if this actually happens, but surely it's counting against forums?

 

[E07.NET]

Google knows that content is quoted so it is not going to penalize you, if your content is looking natural to Google.

 

[newBB]

Google knows that content is quoted so it is not going to penalize you, if your content is looking natural to Google.

And how does Google know it?

 

[Value Telcom]

Not sure, but our forum is PR 4 so I think we are ok, there is a ton of quoting in our posts lol

 

[sokun]

I don't think this affects seo because the content belongs to the original site. It's only when you scrape content that its bad.

 

[papaji]

hey Luke, you are confused with your own topic don't be confused, google know very well that a quote is a quote and duplicate content is content.