It seems a bit odd for you to be so cagey about the identity of this "original site" while at the same time lamenting that they aren't getting the traffic they deserve. Why don't you tell us who they are?
It's because I don't speak for the owners of the site and I'd rather make sure they don't mind me putting it out there like this. I could let you know privately, if you'd like to check my story for yourself, though.
I'm not sure if they do mind. I do know that their relationship with Google is important to them when it comes to their much larger and more successful projects and that this site has been mostly left behind, so they may not want to bring it up in the context of this Hacker News post, even in the unlikely case that it resulted in this site getting its traffic back. Why not just email me and I'll show you a simple content site with minimal traffic, not using any black or gray-hat SEO tactics, with high-quality, original (to the Web) content, referenced in thousands of Wikipedia articles and you can decide for yourself if my post was truthful.
