michalm - 7:25 pm on Aug 31, 2005 (gmt 0)

The topic here is about scraper sites. From what I have seen it is not necessarily scraper sites that got dropped.

One of y sites that had a dmoz clone in it was dropped on July 28th. I have quickly removed the clone and submitted a reinclusion request. After a few days I received a "forwarded to engineers" email. Nothing happened, site was still out.

After about 2 more weeks I decided to drop my resources pages, on which I had a line saying: "If you want to exchange links email me".
I sent a reply to the reinclusion request reply explaining that I removed the resources pages and did wrong by encouraging others to exchange links with me.
The same day, I received another "forwarded to engineers" reply and after 3 days the site was back with its pagerank and all previous number one serps.

Guess we have to think about removing other potential breaches in guidelines and not focus so much on the scraper content.