[wp-hackers] Support for "nofollow"

[Mark Jaquith]

Stephen Minutillo wrote:

>  There's a way to strike a balance that works for well-maintained
>weblogs: only put the rel="nofollow" on new comments!  If the comments
>survive without being deleted a certain (configurable) amount of time,
>they can be assumed to be OK and the rel="nofollow" comes off.  This
>acts as a fail-safe: if a comment gets through the spam blocking and
>is posted to the site, the spammer still doesn't get any
>PageRank-juice out of it, because a human will come around and delete
>it before the timer expires.  The brand new comments are sort of
>considered to be on probation for a while.
>
>This is what I plan to do on my site.  Right now I am just rewriting
>all links in comments (and the author link) to have ref="nofollow",
>but that unfairly penalizes legitimate commenters.  Spam on my site
>never survives for more than 24 hours, so I'll probably set up a
>timeout of about a week.
>
Good idea!  Another thing you could do it "whitelist" people on your 
blogroll, or people with X comments, so they wouldn't have to wait a 
week for the "nofollow" to be removed.
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