[wp-hackers] nofollow

[Joseph Scott]

On Jan 21, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Christoph Rummel wrote:

>
> On 22.01.2005, at 00:46, Joseph Scott wrote:
>> 	If I have to I'll look at a plugin, or simply rip the code
>> out when I update WordPress, but I refuse to allow my
>> blog software to require nofollow on all links in comments.
>> That smacks a little too much of a Microsoft technique to
>> dealing with things.
>
> Ouch. That's not fair... ;-)

	Yeah, I thought that might carry a bit more punch :-)

> Spam is spam. With email it's the same - you don't want to
> have any spam in your inbox, not a single one. So you
> spamfilters to get rid of spam before it hits you. And for
> commentspam we have several solutions that do the same -
> getting rid of spam befor any search engine can rank it.
>
> See, if there is no spam in weblogs we do not need "nofollow".

	Exactly, that would be my point.  I will take every step necessary to 
make sure that comment spam doesn't show up on my blog.  In my opinion 
that is the only complete solution.  As such I have no need for 
nofollow (at least pertaining to comment spam) and don't want to be 
forced to use it.

> Of course there are non maintained weblogs which do not
> get weeded out, but they most likely won't get an update that
> includes a nofollow-feature either.
>
> Even if everybody/every blog would use "nofollow", comment
> spam still does not get better, just like email spam. It needs to
> be deleted, the earlier the better. And if there is no spam, we
> need no solution that lets google rank down blogs and punishes
> real commentors.

	
	
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Joseph Scott