[mvandemar]

That's been done though. Pretty much everything they rank for is from self-voting, manipulation that is contrary to the "democratic nature of the web" that Google wants to leverage. There are plenty of queries that demonstrate that, ones that Matt has indeed been shown.

[AlexBlom]

I'm all for stopping Google Spam, and I don't doubt it is happening in this case but I'm not entirely certain that the case in point is Google Spam.

If I am only interested in Star Wars questions a secondary portal is going to be far more interesting to me. I have no problems with the concept.

Yes, the execution itself can be questioned with all of the links but can't blame a guy for trying can you?