[Wazza]

Does anyone honestly believe they've banned sites solely because they're using Smart Thumbs?

IMO if any site has been banned / savagely downgrading on goog it is because they're running a CJ and goog has learned how to spot this, or they're sharing a DB among several sites and goog has spotted the dupe content, or they've got very little actual text on their pages and were relying on alt and title to insert "words" and goog no longer likes this...

If goog really is using the script employed to judge sites then that is an unfortunate development...