[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):

 > Maybe you're right - after all the only people that will notice the
 added overhead are likely to be those that are able to create/manage
 robots.txt files. I still don't like that we're generating a whole new
 bunch of pages for crawlers to have to visit, though.

 Cool. I just brain-dumped into #10550. Basically, I suspect that the
 "Google is hitting these useless URLs on my website!" reaction will go way
 down in volume once these pages aren't indexed anymore (which the meta tag
 does). Once people don't see them anymore when they log onto Webmaster
 Tools.

 Sure, Googlebot may still hit these URLs (in a rate-limited way in the
 middle of the night), but is it hurting anything? !WordPress already does
 a good job of affirmatively saying "index me" when you publish a post, so
 it's not like people are waiting around for Googlebot's nightly visit for
 their pages to show up in Google News or whatever.

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