[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #3842: Eliminate rel="nofollow"

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#3842: Eliminate rel="nofollow"
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 Reporter:  markjaquith                            |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement                            |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  low                                    |    Milestone:  2.2      
Component:  Administration                         |      Version:  2.1.1    
 Severity:  normal                                 |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  nofollow spam rel comments trackbacks  |  
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Comment (by rob1n):

 http://kimmo.suominen.com/sw/dofollow/

 Whether or not this makes it into the core, patching your core files makes
 upgrading less feasible and that plugin takes care of it all.

 I am +1 on removing nofollow. What has it done? Hardly anything that I can
 see. Comment spam has if anything, by Akismet's own graphs, increased
 multiple times over. If people wanted to use nofollow, I'm sure someone
 could come up with a plugin to add rel="nofollow", but I don't think
 nofollow should be in the core.

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