In my response here to a forum member I point out that even while actively searching for SPAM in SideWiki, I just have't found it. I even asked (challenged) other forum members to send me the examples so that I could monitor the deletion/abuse situation. Amongst all those more-than-just-angry forum members, nobody came up with a single example.
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Well I suppose that may not be the whole story, but even for myself in keeping an open mind about this thing, I fully expected to see SPAM-like messages on SideWiki. I too, am worried about how Google will handle that aspect.
As it is so far however, the only truly distasteful SideWiki entries (2 or 3) I have seen have been posted by webmasters (in the style of your response) on their own (or friend's) sites for the purpose of testing and setting an example of what could happen. (Presumably because of the lack of real-life examples.)
Nothing wrong with preparing for the worst I suppose, and it may very well still get ugly, but you would think SPAMMERS would already be on this thing, and yet - they clearly are not. So enticing someone to join a cause on this basis alone, seems rather ill conceived and wasteful in nature.
If this petition was refined to the point of it's goal being SideWiki offer webmasters the CHOICE to opt-out I would actually be for it, (even though I feel that too would be a mistake,) it is much more fair than having the website owner seek and install blocking programs with every new SideWiki-like service. (Yes, more are coming!)
Refine this thing, and you may get some more support.
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