[wp-hackers] CVS: wordpress/wp-includes comment-functions.php [signed]

[John Ha [c]]

I agree.
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From: "Joseph Scott" <joseph at randomnetworks.com>
To: <hackers at wordpress.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] CVS: wordpress/wp-includes comment-functions.php
[u]


>
> On Jan 22, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Matthew Mullenweg wrote:
>
> > Owen Winkler wrote:
> >> Maybe I trust everyone on this list to install appropriate anti-spam
> >> measures and only disable nofollow when it's prudent, but I don't
> >> trust the tens of thousands of common WordPress users who wouldn't
> >> even understand this message thread.  There are already solutions
> >> available (posted elsewhere in this list) for people who really don't
> >> want to use nofollow.  I'm sure more robust solutions will become
> >> available as the nofollow code evolves.
> >
> > Exactly.
>
> If you really wanted to PREVENT comment spam why don't you include
> something like AuthImage (http://www.gudlyf.com/index.php?p=376) or one
> of the many other plugins that attempt to PREVENT spam and turn it on
> by default.  With just nofollow those newbie WP bloggers will simply
> discover that they now have 2,500 spam comments that have use nofollow
> in their links.  And believe me, deleting than many comments is very
> unpleasant (speaking from experience).
>
> If you aren't trying to PREVENT comment spam, then you are just going
> down the same road as email spam filters.  Which has done nothing to
> slow down, let alone stop, email spam.
>
>
> --
> Joseph Scott
> http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/
>
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