On 27/04/07, Andrew Cates andrew@catesfamily.org.uk wrote:
I don't get it (or at least understand it that way). The article says wikipedia (with nofollow) generates lots of traffic and is very valuable. So nofollow doesn't put people off spamming. Everytime we ask at Project Wikispam everyone agree adding nofollow hasn't helped at all. All it does is give a false warming feeling to people "at least these SoBs aren't getting pagerank from us". And nofollow is a 6m Neon sign saying "our content cannot be trusted" so the true warming feeling goes to Britannica.
There are two forms of spamming. One is spamming links to get traffic; the other is spamming links simply to get the attention of search engines. Nofollow makes no impact on the former, but does mess up the latter, and that's what we were aiming to deal with...