Genie - 10:19 am on Oct 6, 2007 (gmt 0)

Folks - try not to worry too much about what a competitor might do. As a webmaster I know that it is all too easy to fear that some spiteful person out there is somehow wreaking havoc with malice aforethought on our innocent sites.

But as an editor I can assure you that I have never once come across a case of anyone mass-submitting or multiple-submitting the site of a competitor. People simply don't do it. I can see why not. It would be far too much energy to expend on an exploit with such a doubtful outcome. Would it help or harm? You only have to look at the queries in this thread to see that people are very unsure on that point. And with reason. There simply isn't a clear-cut answer that fits every circumstance.