Watcher_of_the_Skies - 4:07 am on Jul 16, 2003 (gmt 0)

C'mon, all. There is SPAM (100% bonafide), SPAM (dodgy-gray-area-stuff), and NO SPAM/squeaky-clean (more than those here seem to assume). A site that is in the first category above and continually ranks well hurts everyone. How? The longer it stays, the more it encourages fence-sitters (though none here that I can see) to give a shot at any of the well-known techniques. To do well, everyone MUST do it - and it takes away from making better sites.

"This has got to be the only industry where adults tattle like children as a business practice."

Yes, as you said, there's nothing fair about it, so please stop whining! ("Why are you tattling?" - sounds like the classic SPAM/Kenneth Lay/Richard Nixon defense.) Most people (not all), I assume, only report the really obvious stuff. If Google actually acts on it -- rare! -- then you've probably broken several rules. Got something to hide? If you have a page that takes money out of my pocket that's basically composed of illegible gibberish, I WILL turn YOU in every time!