[wp-hackers] OT: "Nofollow" Rant

[Mark Jaquith]

Has anyone been able to give a reason why giving links rel="nofollow" 
for a few days would be detrimental to... well... anything?

Someone brought this up earlier, and it really gives you the best of 
both worlds.  All links in comments will have rel="nofollow" at first.  
But if the comment is still there after X days, it gets removed.

Thus, rel="nofollow" acts as a BACKUP spam method, in case some spam 
gets through and you don't get around to deleting if for a few days.

Comments that are up there for X days are assumed to be legit (otherwise 
you would have deleted them already), and are given Pagerank by Google 
just like before.  I know someone wrote this code for their personal 
use... I think it's the best solution.

- Mark Jaquith