I am aware that it's perfectly easy for a small blog to moderate comments before posting, but frequently administrators prefer to allow users to post at their leisure and just remove spam / offensive comments when they come across them. Additionally, if a large-scale popular blog requires moderation before posts are displayed then the discussion quality will be severely impacted. In both of these situations and more, it's useful to show user comments immediately after creation.
This brings me to my main point, it's probably a good idea to force, or have an option to force, the addition of 'nofollow' to the rel attribute in comment links, both in the comment content and the user's website link. This would help dissuade users from spamming with links to their own websites for the sake of increasing search engine rankings, and in doing so would prevent loss of the blog's own search relevance. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
