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Now Google have changed their wording for reconsideration requests (formerly reinclusion requests), I have filed one for this domain. I am not going to call this a perfect example of a reconsideration request, but I decided that it was better to be 100% honest about my thought process for both now and in the future, because whilst I am now blocking paid reviews with robots.txt, there are so many things still not specified within the webmaster guidelines that it is a potential minefield, especially for someone who has previously been the target of a manual penalty. Here is exactly what I sent to the Google webmaster team.