[wp-hackers] OT: "Nofollow" Rant

Craig Hartel craig at nuclearmoose.com
Sat Jan 22 07:52:05 GMT 2005


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?

I don't believe it's detrimental to anything per se. I do believe that it
penalizes legitimate commenters for the sake of "maybe" some spam getting
through. I want the spammers to have all the hassle, not commenters.

Craig.
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