Lapizuli - 7:01 am on Mar 4, 2011 (gmt 0)

Sorry, maybe because it's late I'm not clear on what you're saying...and I don't want to hijack this thread any longer with my stuff...I did think from your mention of "fuzzy subject" that Google uses its latent semantic indexing or whatever their techno-patent-voodoo is to read comments. But right now, I'm not really prepared to get rid of the comments or the poll, which are not what I'd call spammy. Other pages that suffered have neither comments nor poll. This happened suddenly, to a wide number of articles, to a wide number of authors, and so I don't believe it's something that's wildly different for each page - it's just too widespread. I think of it like I think of human beings - we all like to think we're very different and individual and unique, but we happen to be unique in a lot of the same ways as our brethren. ;)