I've spent a lot of time here at my current place advocating refactoring. The concept of "code smell" is one that continually comes up. My esteemed colleague, Rich Werning, just came up with "Rich's ultimate code smell test". One simple question: if the project you are working on was to be released as open source, and thus available to the scrutiny and review of hundreds or thousands of other developers, would you want your name and professional repuation associated with the source code? If not, your code stinks.

100% agreed, and brilliantly stated.