4eyes - 2:22 pm on Jan 31, 2003 (gmt 0)

..the word cloaking is being used for applications that shouldn't really be called cloaking (in Alan's opinion and also in mine)

That is the crux of the problem.

Clearly one word is no longer enough for this sensitive and misunderstood topic.

Any discussion on the ethics of 'cloaking' just turns into a battle of different definitions.

Personally I find it hard to see anything other than shades of grey here.

Even organising an orchestrated link popularity campaign has an element of manipulation in it, and there are many well known names on both sides of this argument that are actively engaged in link chasing.

There is no moral high ground - there is just 'high risk' and 'low risk'.