Have had a big increase in requests for help with manual actions lately. These include thin content, pure spam, and scaled content. Most of these sites are legitimate long standing businesses. Reminds me of 2011 - early 2012. Google went wild dishing out manual actions for unnatural links. What followed was the launch of Penguin in April of 2012 which was an algorithmic demotion. I think when Google gives out loads of manual actions it is for two reasons: 1. They are finding examples to use to train machine learning systems that will eventually be used algorithmically. 2. They learn from the reconsideration requests. Usually, in order to get a manual action lifted you need to fess up about what tactics you've been using. Anyhow, I still think that a big update is on its way. And I think it may be quite shocking for sites that have thrived more on SEO knowledge than truly being the most helpful and reliable.