I agree that an auto-nofollow is not for everyone in every case, but if the core software is targeted towards the general user, it's probably a good addition, especially if there is an on-off switch.
On Apr 18, 11:33 am, Owen Winkler <[email protected]> wrote: > Realpolitik wrote: > > 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. > > Yes, I've been curious about this default behavior for a long time. We > should have some basic settings in core that address the default > handling of new comments. > > > 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. > > I would prefer that Habari core stand aside from such contentious > topics. Plugins and themes can be written to handle applying extra > properties to these links. > > Here's information on nofollow itself:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow > > Here's the nofollow spec:http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-nofollow > > Here are some (questionable) reasons against > nofollow:http://nonofollow.net/11-reasons-against-nofollow/http://www.eatdrinksleepmovabletype.com/discussions/nofollow_is_no_good/ > > I'd really rather not start a thread on whether nofollow is good or not, > but rather see if we can agree on whether it's something our core > software should address at all. > > That said, I would certainly rather expend my efforts extending the > Comment class to allow for additional kinds of comments (content types > for comments) than implementing nofollow, and the plugin I would > inevitably need to write to disable it. > > Owen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
