aristotle - 10:00 pm on Nov 13, 2012 (gmt 0)

Well the root casue of the problem is Penguin itself, which is based on a false assumption and terribly flawed as a result. By "ridiculous situation", I was actually referring just to the aftermath, in which Google has asked people to spend large amounts of time, unproductively and inefficiently, trying to get backlinks removed or disavowed, all of which would be totally unnecessary if the algorithm would simply devalue any "bad" backlinks. But penguin itself is the basic problem.