No Sir, I don't agree on this with you.

The Folks at Google at not stupid. They track the sources of links looking for natural organic growth and other patterns. A spamming policy like this would stand out for this and timing reasons. Site owners can easily disavow bad links anyway.

This is black hat and a real bad practice for those who cannot outrank the competitors fair and square, yet it really happens. Personally, I think Google is not completely blind indeed; besides, any conscious website owner will always be keeping an eye on the progress, and should notice any unusual spikes and changes, be it traffic, rankings or number of backlinks. It`s kinda impossible to prevent an attack, but it can be spotted early enough to revert.

So, forewarned is forearmed. If you were actually wondering how to stay safe from such stuff - check this article on Negative SEO (a great one, have been stumbling upon it everywhere lately).

Best answer above, google is not stupid like many people are.

You people also do not have a clue as to what google thinks is a "bad" link, nor do you know how they deal with them.

Of course this leads to not knowing what a good link is either. Sometimes the "good" is ignored.

Finally, you people have no clue as to how google works.

They actually tell you much of this stuff upfront....if you care to read it.

Paul

It's possible you might even help your competitors and you spent money doing it.

There are people who are doing that, but there is a way to neutralize it, so people who have the top positions in google are not dumb and they know how to react. In other words you will lose your time for nothing.