Starting in August, searchenginenews.com has been reporting that sometimes the wrong inbound links can hurt you.
This month in their newsletter they make the comment
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"You'll want to avoid letting your incoming link structure get too homogeneous. Incoming links from only one type of site or only to your homepage or all with identical anchor text are telltale clues that could potentially cause a search engine to flag your site for an unnatural link structure."
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I have been reading this magazine for years, they do a lot of research on the search engines. Maybe it is all crap, maybe none of us will get burned because we aren't scrapers, but personally I'd rather err on the side of caution, then get tossed out of the SE's. Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt. Don't plan on doing it again.
And I'm glad you posted Linkster, helps keep it all in perspective, and gets different opinions on the topic. I'm a hell of a lot more sensitive to not pissing off the SE's given my history, so sometimes I over react to possible problems.