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MKA, I don't think that sending Google 50 requests per day is the answer.
Django, my site has over 1300.
Google considers a penalty to be a manual action. If something causes the algorithm to not rank your site as high as it has been, Google does not consider that a penalty. Any webmaster that has enjoyed years of top rankings, however, does consider it a penalty whether it is manual or algorithmic, when their site falls.
That said, if someone else causes your site to fall, even if it is algorithmic, Google should at least know about it. One webmaster reporting it won't make much noise, however if a group of webmasters approaches Google they could change their algorithm.
I am not convinced that those links have hurt my site, however it is suspicious that whoever is doing this does it to numerous sites and continues to do it to this day. Normally, people will not continue an action (especially over a period of years) without some return in their investment of that action.
I suspect that there are quite a few websites that have fallen, and that this could be part of the problem at the very least, and that the owners of those websites are either under the impression that it was something that they themselves did that caused their sites' fall, or just algorithmic changes that they have yet to keep up with/discover/whatever.
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