[wp-hackers] more nofollow

[David Clark]

I second this motion -- makes much, much more sense.

The unilateral decision by Matt to implement it by default looked like 
simply sucking up to Six Apart, to me.

dc


On Jan 24, 2005, at 9:16 AM, Scott Merrill wrote:

> I said:
>> A nofollow plugin will benefit everyone using WordPress who wants to
>> use it; and it need not burden anyone who doesn't want it.
>
> I'd like to follow this up with a question to the core development
> team:
>    is it logically consistent with the idea of
>    the plugin system (ie: a mechanism to _add_
>    functionality to WordPress) that users be
>    required find and enable a plugin to _disable_
>    a feature of WordPress (ie: nofollow)?
>
> I understand that many folks are opposed to the addition of a new
> option to enable or disable nofollow site-wide.  If nofollow is a
> core feature of future versions of WordPress, I'd really like to see
> WordPress accomodate those folks who aren't interested in it, either
> by an administrative option, or by using a plugin to _enable_
> nofollow, rather than disable it.
>
> Given the polarity of opinions on the issue, and WordPress's stated
> goal to keep the core simple and fast, and to rely on plugins to do
> all sorts of extra stuff, I really think that a nofollow plugin is
> the best way to move forward.
>
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