Should I buy this expired domain?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Michael Martinez: This is a common spam strategy with problematic consequences. Some people have received manual actions (penalties) for doing exactly what you propose.
  
  If you`re going to reclaim an expired domain, develop new content for it.
  
  Google says the old links won`t help and if they do help you don`t know which ones help or how long it will take them to help.
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  Ammon Johns: In addition to what Michael Martinez already said, you need to understand that links from a major news site are a lot like links from a social network - great at the time, but because of the volume of content they produce, it is a link on just a few pages out of millions, so unless that particular story still has links from the homepage directly, its share of the link `juice` from the domain is almost zero.
  
  The only links worth much money are links on pages that have active traffic and attention. Put it this way, if you wouldn`t pay to have an advert on a particular page, then neither should you consider the link to be worth much.
  
  Pages and links are everywhere. Millions of new pages with tens of millions of links in them are created every single day. PageRank and other link metrics are a method of calculating the network structure, the percentage of all links that go to any given place either directly, or via just a few simple clicks. The links do not have a strict or fixed value, but a relative one - relative to all other links known to Google.