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Excellent point. I didn't put together the link designation with the likelihood that Google had put Metafilter into a spam penalty box. I simply hadn't considered that a possibility given Metafilter's reputation.

Every time I read about this Metafilter situation, I cringe in thinking about how horrible Answers.com is with the abusive tactics they employ now when it comes to displaying content / answers. And yet they remain non-penalized; historically they're one of AdSense's biggest publishers, always found that interesting.