I will have to totally disagree with this mesure. I have a few points I would like to touch:
1. There should be nobody trying to “police” the industry. And who is to say what is Black Hat SEO? Does repeating a keyword 10 times in a row falls into this category?
And if you plan on scraping the scraper sites, wouldnt you just “re-scripe” yours and our own content?!? Thus increasing the chances to get banned?
2. We can get rid of those websites by taking action ourselves in a much better way, namely, by targeting the aff programs. I, for example, do not advertise those aff programs mentioned above, despite their constant emails. This forum justified Casino Partners a few months ago for the same scrapers, and now it’s turning the opposite way…There should be consistency, and if you do not approve the actions of those aff programs – they should not be “certified partners” – how about that Professor?
3. There are a few aff programs which are behind us 100% and will close an affiliate account for scraping a good site. But how could you ask an aff program to help you with a bad affiliate, if you do the same thing???