I am allowed to have my own opinion and I should be able to have it without someone being a jerk about it. I could lash right back and say you're a newb, what do YOU know, but I won't because frankly, I don't give a shit. Black hat in my book, is doing illegal or unsavory techniques or techniques that can ultimately hurt your website ie; posting on low quality sites, posting low quality content, spamming, link farming, or any of the new (old) techniques that Google finds unsavory ie; posting on certain blog networks because of low quality links and or low quality ranks. I had to re-do my entire marketing plan even BECAUSE I was NOT doing BH, but because of the changes G made.
Anyway, I'm not continuing this on Arun's thread. If you want to chat - PM me.