On: Rapgenius Uniques Fall 90%

[minimaxir]

What?

The "game" RapGenius played was the act of being evil.

[petercooper → minimaxir]

the act of being evil.

Let's get some perspective here. They were offering to promote people's pages in return for them linking back to them. Far from being evil, this isn't even illegal.

[codygman → petercooper]

So? Only one thing matters:

They broke the TOS and Google rightfully enforced it.

[captainmuon → codygman]

Well, technically they didn't break the TOS, because you don't sign a TOS to get listed on Google. :-)

[codygman → captainmuon]

Well, technically since they didn't sign up for getting listed on Google they shouldn't complain about getting delisted. :-)

Also, they could have submitted their site to Google.

[tedivm → codygman]

The point isn't that Google was wrong in doing so, at least not in the thread you're responding to. The point was that violating a TOS is not "evil"- no one died, no one was tortured or raped, there weren't death camps or civil liberties being violated.

This was stupid, it wasn't evil.