Don't you find it funny that we are responsible if we get to many clicks? I thought the whole point of joining adsense was to make money. Don't get me wrong I don't believe we should click the ad that get served in our web site but the rest come on.
Google has to threaten to use their big stick if they want to keep the people that plan on abusing the trust. Unfortunately that also means that the people that follow the rules can get burnt too if they are attacked by a third party that clickbombs their site. Unless Google comes up with a better way of determining who is responsible for malicious clicks that's the way it's going to be.
I don't understand what you mean? Are you trying to suggest that Adsense sees it as against TOS if someone gets too many click. No! As long as the clkick are genuine, it does not matter how many click one gets.
I partially agree that we aren't totally responsible for click bombs since we have no control over it.. I think google should be more relaxed in that aspect. For the rest of the rules that we do control such as ad placement.. that's a different story.
I'm reasonably certain that my site gets more clicks than yours, rmartish, and I have never once worried about it how many clicks I'm getting or if it's going to get me banned. If you are making enough money from Adsense that you start having nightmares about getting banned, it's time to spread your revenue out to other sources.