-60 or -70 penalty for Using Only User-Generated Content?

[Future]

Generally, for a community website, ranking on top SERPs for a broad range of keywords is quite natural, however, we have seen many of our new pages are getting displayed on 5th, 6th or 7th pages.

This has been observered for few sites which only has user generated content, and can be observed on different niches.

[tedster]

I can immediately say that this isn't true for WebmasterWorld - and we have nothing but UGC here.

[Future]

tedster,
Thank You for your quick reply.

Have you noticed anything like certain keywords ranking on 5th or 6th SERPs ?

[tedster]

I'm sure that some pages do - but that would only be normal. I haven't run across anything far enough out of the normal to catch my attention.

That doesn't mean you're not in a penalty situation, just that UGC is not the cause.

[maximillianos]

I think unmoderated UGC can get hit with penalties. It becomes quite obvious when a site is unmoderated. Comments start to look spammy. Language is bad/inappropriate. An unmoderated site won't last long before even corporate filters start blocking it.

[leafgreen]

Comments start to look spammy. Language is bad/inappropriate

Yep. The spammy comments typically include links to pages which could be loaded with malware and banned by G for that and other reasons. Goog sees 90% of links pointing to those pages, and say buhbye to your site on G's serps.