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Very few people have written in with specific queries or sites, but I'll mention the url once more:
[google.com...]This isn't really a surprise. Hey Google, how about some form of diplomatic immunity where you can protect your own site when you "grass" on a bad neighbourhood?
I won't report anything on my chosen keywords because I'm terrified of being slaughtered in the cull. Who knows what they would ban me for? Perhaps just for not being relevant enough. I can just see it: "this site doesn't belong at the top. Let's do a manual adjustment the PageRank dampening factor. Ok, now what about those other sites specifically mentioned in the spam report?"
If Google had an "immunity from conviction" system whereby the informer can be sure he is safe and that his URL will not be tracked afterwards, I'm sure there would be many more reports. I don't think this would be unrealistic. Google would have to keep their word. If they didn't the whole community here would know of it within 24 hours.
On the page below me is a lot of dirt, but even though my site is clean, I still don't like the thought of a human editor poking his nose around and making his own judgement.
It doesn't really matter whether I mention the search term or not in the spam report. My 2 year old baby could work it out.
I can deal with Googlebot, but there's no telling about subjective opinion.
"The FUD has been directly refuted by GoogleGuy"
What is FUD?
