Scrapebox broke my internetz so now I have to post from the library
How are you posting this if you have no internet connection. Did you escape from Papua New Guinea?
Being serious though, I used Scrapebox on one of my white hat sites, and definitely went from 6 to out of the listings no longer even ranking for my site name. Definitely wouldn't recommend it to anyone trying to build a legit business.
Its been said numerous times here, dont comment spam your money domains. On a side note you think askimet could be sending spam reports to the search engines?
I highly doubt it. MAYBE. But it would be awfully nice of the Akismet team, and not sure what Google could offer them in return.
On another note, I doubt google would be willing to trust anybody elses data. If they did, google could be out of business faster than you can say...
It's not just anybody's data, it's Automattic's data. I would imagine there's a little more trust there than most other companies...