I think Stardate is going to move to a new domain soon anyway. This will allow me to be more editorial as well. I cannot imagine that all businesses and blogs are treated like this. Some of us are actually legit sites.

Perhaps we all need to post about the Top ways to remove a competitor from the SERPs. How do we know that one our our competitors did not exploit our blog as well? C'mon G, how man times do i have to say Please.

2/12/08 - Submitted Reinclusion Request after Removing the hacked code. Received an automated response.

3/1/08 - Posted about the hack.

As of this comment date (3/6/08), the site is still unaccessible in Google meaning that this may be the average time line if your website is hacked. 3 Weeks minimum of no Google traffic. No response from the post (unlike other SEO Blogs - yes, I know this is probably not Matt's Dept, but he did make a big note of it here (Read This!), so I expect this hack and situation is common).