Exactly!

But I do beleive there needs to be standards, and it doesn't need to be policed persae.

If you created content / a site, that failed the standards, quite simply the SE's should fail to index it *until* it meets the minimum standard requirements.

If you did some DIY building on your house, it MUST meet standards, be it building regs or what ever.

If you fail to meet this standard it doesn't mean the police come arrest you, and sling you in jail does it, it simply might mean you cannot inhabit the property until they meet the minimum standards, and so you have to keep changing things until they do.

Then when you finally meet the standards required they get passed off as OK and everone's a winner.

Makes simple sense to me, but I always seem to find myself at loggerheads with the general SEO community, so what do I know!