Don't you think that banning google bot from visiting that forum would help some of the sellers and buyers?
Don't think it'll make any difference really - I'm sure they'll check manually before penalising anyone who deals in there.
Yeah, is very easy for google team.. For example: Google team say: Hello, I'm interested in your link, please can you send me your website, and then PUM!, is very easy and cheap! LOL they haven't to expend thousands of dollars to make a software to search links, etc etc, of course they have the programm, script, etc to search paid links, but another way is manully Best, Jakomo
Yeah, but there are people who post innocent links in that forum - like a signature link containing their own URL might appear. Having a completely automated approach might result in innocent webmasters being penalised and Google, despite being as popular as syphilis at the moment, aren't going to want to piss anyone else off.
So they won't do it manually for every site, but they probably would do it for site threads for pr 7 and up since there are so few of them. (they may even go lower) Remember Google hand picked to penalize certain directories of directory owners from this forum.