Hiding tables from the engines

Is this considered cloaking?

[panic]

On my product pages, I've got a table for the user to enter their name, email, comments, etc.

If a comment has been posted from that IP for that particular product, the table is no longer visible.

If I were to hide the table from the engines (which helps boost my text to HTML ratio by about 5%), would this be considered cloaking?

I've also toyed with the idea of having the user enter comments by clicking a link that would contain the user comments form, but I want to avoid this if possible. Any suggestions?

-panic

[bhartzer]

The engines want to see the same thing that a users sees when they come to the page.

[panic]

I figured that... but my question was wether that would be cloaking, not what the engines want to see.

-p

[volatilegx]

Getting rid of the table probably would meet the strict definition of search engine cloaking. You would be showing different content to spiders in order to gain a better keyword ratio.

You might try putting the form in an <iframe>. That would show the table/form to the human, but since iframes leave a pretty small footprint (about the same as a link), you could get the same effect as with the cloaking, without actually cloaking.