Old fashioned Keyword stuffing

haven't seen this still done in years...

[OntheEdge]

Remember the old trick of placing 100's of duplication on a page (not same color text as BG) Visable.
Like widgets, wide widgets, small widgets. Then duplicated 100 times?
I recently came across a page that is still doing that, and I'm confused.
Isn't that a super big no-no?
The page is indexed on several SE's, and some even show the stuffed words as the description.
The page has no meta tags for keywords nor a description.
It almost makes all our hard work look like a joke when they come up #2 out of 8,000 on a search!
Opinions?

[agerhart]

This is certainly seen as spam by the search engines....IF they find it. IF they hand review this website, they will penalize it or ban it.

When someone uses a technique like this, I think they have to worry more about their competitors catching them and reporting them than the search engines catching them.

come up #2 out of 8,000 on a search!

8,000 results for a keyword search is actually quite low. When a keyword is in a low competition market it sometimes takes less to rank well.

[OntheEdge]

it's a nonprofit site, with not really any competition at all.
So my assumtion was right, it's a no-no, but if nobody complains or points it out, it can go unnoticed for quite a while?
And just because they're getting away with it now, doesn't mean that will last forever?
Also, they weren't indexed anywere before the last crawl, probably because of it, but they got in an indexed directory, and now they are indexed everywhere the directory is indexed (almost)

[HitProf]

I wouldn't dare to copy it :)