On 29/04/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/29/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
They are "trusted" not to be spam links. If they are "useful", it is quite unlikely they will be spam links. Not impossible (as I'm sure Geni is about to point out), but unlikely.
We don't discriminate between external links in the same way. We have nofollow across the board, whether they are "useful" or not.
And that's because no-one has written the whitelisting code for this and gotten it past Brion, AFAIK.
Of course, there are good arguments for turning off nofollow for external links; I don't really care what we do, as long as there is consistency.
This is the bit that requires coding rather than complaining.
- d.