[wp-hackers] Support for "nofollow"

[Michael Leuchtenburg]

Spake Stephen Minutillo:
> BTW, I see that Matt's name is on the announcement from Google, so I'm
> assuming this is going in 1.5, and will be turned on by default?  If
> so, you might want to consider this "probation" idea.  I'd think that
> by default the probation period would be infinite, since there are
> plenty of people who set up weblogs and then quickly lose interest and
> leave them to rot.  But for people who maintain them carefully, an
> advanced setting to drop the nofollow from "tenured" comments would be
> a nice refinement.

This could also easily be a plugin. That would limit entry a little bit
more, which I think is a good thing. If people have to think to opt out
of this new technique, then it will be more effective at devaluing spam.

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