Does Google really count them as backlinks ? these contentless site pages normally have over 100 links, So is there a possibility that Google might take them as link farms ?
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That's because they're getting insane amounts of backlinks from other sites. I guess google assumes its a link farm if the site itself has few backlinks from other sites.
I think Google can penalise sites in different ways. One way is to wipe out PR; another is to stop links out from passing PR. Having PR doesn't show that Google treats them just like any other page.