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As mentioned by someone else in this thread, that opens up for spammers to turn it up a notch and spam even more. "hey it can't hurt and some may slip through & increase the pagerank"

The problem with that is that you can then post a houndred times as many links and hope that just a few of them go through.

It is a cat and mouse game and we are going to get fucked.

This is why standardized tests like the SAT deduct a quarter point for wrong answers. There needs to be a "penalty" to keep the expected value even.

But in this case, another student is taking your SAT exam after you've handed it in and filling in blank answers with wrong answers.

No question that somebody is cheating or that the teacher should do something. Just saying, the algorithm is punitive for a reason.

Further, that student has no ID and misspelled your name, but some how you still don't get to go to college.

Google just keeps creeping deeper into the shade ...