Are noscript links considered black hat now?

[internetheaven]

We're about to launch a javascript news ticker application. People can add it free on their site. Obviously, we will be sticking a noscript section in which will link to each news article. I realise this is proper use of the noscript but do search engines view all noscript links as spammy now? Just like they don't bother to distinguish between a valuable resource page and a spammy links page?

As far as you know with they simply ignore these links or will there be penalties (in the case of Google obviously who love penalising things!)?

Thanks
Mike

[pageoneresults]

I realise this is proper use of the noscript but do search engines view all noscript links as spammy now?

Can you please confirm where the "spammy now" comes into this? ;)

It is part of the guidelines and you won't be able to validate (WAI) without it.

18.3.1 The NOSCRIPT element
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It's just like any other element. Would what you're doing pass a human review? Does it adhere to the above guidelines? If so, then I wouldn't be concerned about it. If the algo is designed to detect abuse in that area (a signal), I'd assume that there would be many other factors "more signals" that would be brought into the equation before the terms "penalty" or "blackhat" would come into the discussion.