On 1/24/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
I don't agree with the method, but I certainly can agree with the sentiment. It's totally inappropriate to punish all the good links that made Wikipedia great just to get rid of a few spammers. We should develop more effective spam control rather than targetting all the links as one.
Mgm
Here's a stupid suggestion.
Code it so that *NEW* links are nofollow by default (thus stopping linkspammers from being rewarded for linkspamming), but allow a process (request to an admin or something) whereby a link can simply be followed and then the "nofollow" tag removed from it if it's verified to not be a spam link.
Wouldn't that be better than uniformly tagging all links Nofollow?
Unless of course the goal isn't really about stopping spammers, but about trying to game Google's algorithm because someone got jealous that someone else's site came up before en-wikipedia's in a google search somewhere.
I'll note that Nofollow was uniformly rejected by the community in previous discussions.
Parker