[wp-hackers] Support for "nofollow"

Jon Abad jonabad at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 05:08:35 GMT 2005


Would it be possible to implement in such a fashion that if a comment
scores poorly with spaminator or sk its links would be tagged with the
nofollow?
I don't know the feasability of this, i just started doing the plugin
writing myself.



On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:38:45 -0700, Craig Hartel <craig at nuclearmoose.com> wrote:
> There is already a plugin posted on wordpress.org to add the 'rel=nofollow' to
> URLs. However, in looking at it, I think it also punishes legitimate commenters.
> I don't want every URL that is posted on my site by a commenter to have the
> 'nofollow' attribute. I want to promote my visitors who post links back to their
> own sites and to other sites of interest.
> 
> So, as you develop plugins for this, keep in mind that we don't want to punish
> our legitimate visitors. Not only that, but it's not of a lot of value anyway if
> you employ one or more quality spam tools. I don't really need to worry about
> using this new tool because no spam is getting through anyway.
> 
> Comments and ideas are most welcome.
> Craig.
> Nuclear Moose.
> 
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