Forum poaching is not exactly considered “best practices” or “white hat” around forums, in fact it’s considered to be kind of a “black hat” practice and generally looked upon as rather sleazy.

http://www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20772

What’s interesting in the bashing/whining thread

Censored at SEW

is that there were no “examples” or “references” or even URLs posted. Just kind of a “come onna my house” pity party.

Looking through posts of the past few days, it appears there was a bit of a ruckus going on in this one concerning disagreement about the Supplemental index

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=8823

which PhilC seems to have straightened out rather nicely.