[wp-hackers] OT: "Nofollow" Rant

[Michael Heilemann]

I think that would be a good way to do it. If anything, it at least 
makes nofollow relevant...


On 22/1-2005, at 8.34, Mark Jaquith wrote:

> 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
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