POLL: Do you report competitors for spam?

[paresh]

Nah,I don't report it cause i think it will not help much.Also who has the time to report

[Ultraseeker]

I wonder how many spam reports/complaints Google gets every day. And how many of them are legitimate complaints...
From what I've read, G really wants to deal with SE spam using automated software. Hand to hand combat is not scalable.
Too many sneaky nerds out there always toiling away at their next ploys.

[dgribbons]

I have reported spam several times. I was 1, 2 or 3 for about a dozen search terms in the top 3 engines. Held those positions for months. One day I checked, and suddenly, I was at position 100+ for several positions. Then I noticed that the first 100 listing was from a guy who had gone into forums and had repeatedly used the search term over and over again. All of them linking to his site. Made me mad. I reported him to the big 3, and, it took awhile, but after awhile they went away. If it's blatant spamming, I'll take a minute and drop a note. I figure, if no one complains, the idiots win.

[HealthInfo]

Report your email spam to the government: spam@uce.gov

[KrazyG]

Sometimes. But more often, I do not report them. I am not really sure if they will notice what I have reported anyway.

[zeruel]

I do not report them always. But when I feel like to, I do.

[rayter]

I haven't reported any sites for spamming; I'm too busy with my linkbuilding tasks. Google has its mechanism to detect and penalize those spammy sites.

[phcarmaster]

I only report spam if it looks too much. Like I've seen in one forum. The member joined april 2009 but he got 1000 posts and he make the almost 3 pages of spams.