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[nate]

and it could be argued that not only is it be bad to link to them, but it could also harm your site to be linked to from them.

My understanding of that is that you would receive no benefit from such inbound links, but would not be harmed by such links because you have no control over who or where links to you. Now if they can show you have paid for a link, thats a whole different story, as that is explicitly against their rues.

I'll agree that you dont want to get involved with that.

What the hell is a futaba?

Japanese version of BBS. Very popular among 18-25. If someone could get the right angle on it, you could get tons of traffic and some PR to boot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futaba_Channel

Nothing really nasty was said to you nate

Thats cool. You usually seem pretty nice and that just struck me as unlike you. I thought maybe satan had crawled inside you or something. LOL.

Don't even get me started on 4chan 7chan 12chan etc.

You dont like the internet hate machine?