Will changing ARS sites get us banned?

[RawAlex]

Carrie, there are other options:

Look at your stats. Determine which sites are getting traffic, and then

1 - "renew" the sites with new sponsors, careful to maintain the content and overall layout of the site / gallery / content. Make sure that your site continues to have the same number of link offs etc. -ior-

2 - Contact those sites sending you traffic and ask them to removing listings for those sites in question. Build new sites to replace the ones you are losing -or-

3 - contact those sites sending you traffic, and confirm to them that you will be modifying those sites to use new sponsors and such. Let them know BEFORE you start changing things. -or-

4 - plead ignornace, build new sites, and wait to see the results.

If the sites are too graphically intense, #2 is the better solution.

I am looking at my bot right now, and considering mods to have it look for old ARS codes and either remove those sites, notify the webmaster, or move them into a "re-review" pile for me to look into. I don't want to penalilze anyone, but I also don't want surfers misdirected by what will effectively be blind links / redirects.

Alex