Simmo,
the weakness in your approach is that google defines gambling as evil
(read “the google story” for an excellent insight into the way they operate, which really impressed me).
they are working to get search engine spam in all segmnets, however, highlighting casino spam works against everyone as it is relatively easy for them to turn off casino words from the SERPs and specifically all gaming related terms. I dont think they will but why highlight this?
asking affiliate programs to opine whether an automated technique that games the search engines is black hat or not appeals to subjective metrics which i dont think should be allowed to work. Black hatters are only using weaknesses in the algorithms of search engines. To make this forum, the ultimate arbiter of whether a site games the Serps or not, is to overstate the significance of this forum.
I understand the fuss about scraping because that is ethically wrong, but whether someone is black hat or grey hat or white hat and “deserves” anything more than the next person because they might be more white hat is an argument that I dont buy into.
rgs
Devendra