[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16881: Remove all unwanted 'nofollow' attributes from 'reply to comment' links

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#16881: Remove all unwanted 'nofollow' attributes from 'reply to comment' links
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 Reporter:  joelhardi                     |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)                  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                        |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Comments                      |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  minor                         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch commit 2nd-opinion  |
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Comment (by joelhardi):

 I submitted the patch thinking that the "policy side" of this decision had
 been made with r16230 and just wanted to follow through and finish
 implementing it.

 !WordPress sets the [http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html robots meta tag]
 to "noindex,nofollow" (just verified this in trunk) on the actual
 `?replytocom` pages, so crawlers should not be indexing these pages. I
 believe that issue is resolved.

 I'm actually the last commenter on #10550 (with the robots.txt tip) and I
 can tell you that in my case those URLs were being crawled only because I
 don't call wp_head() in my theme, so there's no meta tag. In my case,
 there's no issue with core.

 Although this is OT for this issue, I disagree with the idea of making
 these links into POST forms, that would break HTTP (not sure where
 filosofo's interpretation is coming from). These are GET, a parameterized
 lookup analogous to a search query. The user hasn't submitted any
 information, only requested a blank form. GET means that these URLs can be
 cached (by server, by proxy, by CDN, by browser) and controlled with URL
 rewriting, robots.txt etc. Making them POST would cause load issues, and
 it would cause people to see the "Do you want to submit a form again?"
 popup when they click the back button in their browsers.

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