caine - 11:17 pm on Jun 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

i think if you had to perfectly balanced sites, and the only difference was that one validated and the other did not, hten it may tip the balance in the validateds favor, but since sites, though some may try to get exact replicants, are ususally way off duality, then i would work more towards it being good code, browser friendly, and something that seriously may come into play SE wise in the future as meannate suggests. But for now its just not a viable option for the SE's as they would probably be filtering out about 90% of the content on the web for being unvalidated, possibly even more.