SlyOldDog - 8:15 pm on Feb 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

>>The point is not to get away with it. Because it isn't doing anything wrong.

Call it what you want. It's not advertising. I'm afraid you have your head where the sun does not shine if you cannot see it is gaming any SE which uses a link based algorithm. The advertising value of those links is nill.

If you want to compare it to penalties from the past think of the buying pagerank threads. "Surely it's only advertising?".

It will be the same people posting comments like this who are in the next update thread saying "Gee my site disappeared and it was pure white hat".