Originally Posted by TheSquealer

To be fair, this was actually true before say.. 2007-ish or so (and for some period leading up to this). When there was a penalty for linking to "bad neighborhoods" as Google put it - which like anything else they say, caused the creation of a retarded amount of myths when Google really just meant "when you're blog on blog.dolphins.com has 5000 outbound links to Cialis sites, there is a problem" and it wasn't anything really noticed by normal webmasters (however, you couldn't link a normal site to adult sites for some time before this without it dropping out of the SERPs).

At that time, either a domain was banned for link spam or not. There were no penalties for inbound links.

But obviously, he's trying to talk like he's a Google insider and clearly has no clue what he's talking about.