From the page: "are the ones that are trying to obtain colleague approval â€" which did not happen.
Where it went wrong at SMX Advanced is they had had black hat speakers presenting tactics where the speakers were running their own website not corporate websites. But, the audience was full of corporate webmaster"
Is it really worth it to damage what could be a great reputation for laying the game failry or are you OK with having that crowd of doubters who think (and maybe know) that you cheated to get where you are? I'm not. So I keep it white hat. Mind your reputation, it WILL follow you and if respect is a word that means something in your life, you need to be cautious.