Originally Posted by Matt 26z

The only thing I'll say is there are a number of people on this very board who would not have their beautiful homes and nice cars if Google had found a way to list sites 100% fair and square according to quality and legit popularity.

You see them posting pics of their new toys and all I can think is.... Your high SE rankings may have gotten you that, but the people on page 3 are the ones who essentially paid for it.

I am very much in favor of any measure that nails anyone involved in any type of increased ranking through artificial means. In this case it's the people selling blog posts. They screwed themselves. That is all.